Kevin meets “The Fetus”
I’m not really into the whole celebrity gossip. Its generally pretty lame, unless someone is making jokes about Lindsay “I Discovered Coke” Lohan or Britney “Didn’t I used to be cute” Spears. Lucky for me Radar Online has posted a great little animated gif movie about what life for Birtney and Kevin Federline must be like. Although funny as hell, this clip makes be even more scared about Brit and Kev’s .
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Make the change from “Jerk” to “Soda-Jerk”!
I personally think that anyone that has never secretly wished that they could have their own soda fountain in their home, is most likely a Nazi or at least someone that likes to go around hitting babies in the face with a stick. So of course, I hope that you will all really love this site someone set up with a complete run-through of how to make your own soda fountain at home!
Although the site looks like crap, the information seems good. If I only had the space to put one of these…on yeah, and the scratch to get all the parts I need. The next step, of course, is to make one of these and wire that bitch up a computer or the network and monitor the levels and even control the thing…that would be cool.
Ok, enough day dreaming. Go check out the site and day dream on your own…unless you want to get back to your Nazi-loving, baby beating fun, you sick bastard.
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Free the Gwenihana Four!
Yes, someone else out there needs to be saved…I know, after the whole “Whales” thing, I’m kinda burned out too, but this one seems to be a pretty good cause don’t you think? Wait you don’t know who the Gwenihana Four are? Here is the initial post from the blog that is the center of this movement:
Note: The strike-through of the “buying a t-shirt” sentence was added by me. Not because I think you shouldn’t buy them, but because CafePress has decided that it can’t make the shirts for them because of their Content Usage Policy
Those poor girls, captured and made to dress so they can perpetuate that look that Gwen thought was cute when she was in Japan once. I just have this feeling that Gwen keeps them in little cages with those upside down water bottles that they attach to hampster cages. I didn’t even though, until I read this site, that she actually brought them along to follow her around during the red carpet stage at an award show. I wonder if you bring your group of slaves or posse’ (or whatever) does the award show supply enough seats for them or do you check them at the door like a coat?
Are people scared of 1.0?
Google’s Moto: “If its always in beta, people can’t complain if its broken.”
I was just talking about the Greasemonkey Compiler, and while viewing that I noticed something that has been bugging me for some time now.
On the Compiler page, it asked the user to input a “version number” of their soon to be created extension. The label for that text box is “Something like “0.1″ works well here.” Does that bother anyone else? Ok, maybe not everyone gets bothered by a random guess at a version number on a random website, but to me, this is common symptom of a sickness that the whole computer world, and in particular, the web, is suffering from.
The Greasemonkey Compiler
Have you heard of the Greasemonkey Firefox extension? Its an extension that allows the user to insert and apply created scripts to whatever website that is being viewed. More specifically, user of Greasemonkey could create and apply a script that…lets say, removes all ads from a website or changes a font size to whatever. Basically, someone could change anything about the look of any website. (If you are a reader of Gadgetopia, you might have read me getting in to a little discussion about Greasemonkey with Chris Prillo and a few others.)
Ok…there really is a point here…and I’m getting to it.
Use CSS to make big checkboxes, radio buttons
I’m working on a fairly boxy design for a website, and have a page with not much on it except 3 checkboxes, descriptions of the options and a submit button. Everything looked great except the 3 checkboxes – they were far too small and did not match the rest of the page design. I tried adding a style=”width: 20px; height: 20px;” to the input decleration and ho-boy, I’ve got big checkboxes! The height of the checkboxes now matches the height of the description container. I had never thought that you could change the size of those things at all, but you can with CSS. Works for radio buttons too. Read on for examples…
Semi-Useless Tiger Tricks
I’m fighting through the headaches and brushed the pile of kleenex off of my keyboard to make a post!
I’ve had a few days to play with Tiger, Apple’s newest operating system update, I’ve noticed a few little parlor-tricks. Sure Spotlight is wowing everyone and Dashboard is, well, kinda wowing a few people. But you know what I like? I like the little features, the hidden ones. I also like to share.
I just saw this on the Unofficial Apple Weblog, but I’m going to write it up anyway because I’ve already started typing. Ok, enough already, whats the feature? Screen Rotating. Thats right, its built right in to Tiger.
Tiger: So Far So Good.
So I have Tiger up and running. Not only that, but I only forgot, and subsequently lost, one thing I needed in my clean install / upgrade (Which is actually really good for me!).
I promise I won’t rehash what every other blog or site in the entire world has written or is writting about Tiger lately. But I will say that I have had no problems with it and my little 933 MHz G4 iBook seems to be running faster…although, that could be because of the clean install I did and not Tiger. However here are a few observations without going to indepth: