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“Write by WASTE,” she said, “remember. The government will open it if you use the other. The dolphins will be mad.” “I love you, ma,” he said. “Love the dolphins,” she advised him. “Write by WASTE.”
posted at 12:21 PM | comments (17) | nerdy
Nerd alert, more bookmarklets. This first set takes advantage of Google’s translation service: english to french english to german english to spanish english to italian english to portuguese french to english german to english spanish to english italian to english portuguese to english Create a folder called “translate” or the like in your bookmarks toolbar (in IE, this would…
posted at 2:37 PM | comments (3) | nerdy
If fishes were wishes, the ocean would be all of our desire.
posted at 7:38 PM | comments (11) | nerdy
This is for Mike: ping_chompy plugin for Blosxom 2.0. Let me know if it doesn’t work!…
posted at 4:46 PM | comments (4) | nerdy
Wherein I offload a big, boring list of links in lieu of taking the effort to write anything remotely interesting or worthwhile.
posted at 10:44 PM | comments (6) | chom, nerdy
Austin Public Library Lookup UT Austin Library Lookup Drag one of the links above to the link toolbar of your web browser (or bookmark it — the links won’t work if you simply click on them from this page, though). You may want to rename the link to something succinct and meaningful, like ‘APL Lookup.’ Look up a book…
posted at 3:20 PM | comments (2) | nerdy
I just spent a few minutes trying out Apple’s new web browser, Safari. It’s fast, the interface is clean and elegant, and it blocks pop-ups, but the rendering engine is distressingly buggy. I don’t care for it. A new browser with a (more or less) new rendering engine brings with it an entirely new and vexing set of quirks,…
posted at 4:30 PM | comments (9) | nerdy
news://rss.cpl593h.net:1119/: browse RSS feeds with your newsreader. If you’ve never read Usenet news or used a newsreader before, this post may not interest you. Read on for more details. If you do try this out, please add a comment, because I’m interested in hearing your feedback. The software is at version 0.1, and is therefore likely to be buggy,…
posted at 2:12 PM | comments (7) | nerdy
Tamara left for Houston to shoot the Bad Apples, but I’m sticking around because I’m still coughing up bits of my lungs. It occurs to me that I should’ve asked her to bring back a dessert from the House of Pies, but it’s too late now. I spent the last couple of hours tinkering with SNF and chompy. Thanks…
posted at 2:21 PM | comments (2) | nerdy
I was bored tonight, so I wrote an SNF search plugin for use with the crappy Mozilla web browser and the incomparably good Phoenix web browser. Look at it go! (Technically, the thing can be used with Sherlock if you have Max OS X, but I have no idea how that would work.) Granted, I predict that exactly one…
posted at 11:26 PM | comments (2) | nerdy
the makings of the Greater East Tabletop Co-Prosperity Sphere
posted at 7:00 PM | comments (6) | nerdy