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Mozilla 1.1 is out. Supports Quartz rendering in OS X, so it should look (even) better.
Saw this in a HTP discussion. Could it be right?
Estimated amount the United States spends each year safeguarding oil supplies in the Persian Gulf: $50,000,000,000
Source: Council on Foreign Relations (N.Y.C.)
Estimated value of U.S. crude-oil imports from the region last year : $19,000,000,000
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration/ Harper's research
Minimalist external hard drive firewire bridge. (via boingboing)
God I had fun last night.
Colin Wilson on Robert Graves (via robotwisdom.)
I passed the test. It's official. I'm not a complete dork. If I was, and the possibility was certainly there, I'd have left the lovely evening I was having with MB and Sarah to be at the Apple store by 10:20 last night when Jagwire (OS X 10.2) was released. Yes, they had a party. People in costumes. Probably posting to their blogs from the display machines. Supreme dork stuff like that.
Instead I resisted the mind control rays emanating from the mothership, and stayed up on the roof enjoying the perfect summer evening. Clam pasta, cuvee Buster, Texier hermitage (wine dork status might still be possible.)
Drinking coffee right now, and then I will make my way, calmly, like a normal person not caught in the RDF, over to SOHO and purchase my copy. No hurry. It's just an operating system. Not like it's going to be a big deal or anythi....
The Casio EX-S1 looks great. I like my Canon G1, but it is too big. If I was buying again I'd think seriously about this camera. It doesn't have the resolution, but it is supremely small. Here's the Steve's digicams review (here's the conclusion) and here's the dcresource review. Very cool. Still, my guess is that cameras will become a feature of cellphones (like the p800) soon enough, and that will be even cooler (always with you, plus you can upload pictures wirelessly right from the same device.)
As if having one of the best weblogs around isn't enough, boing boing has an interesting secondary "guest blog" written by rotating third parties that runs down the right hand margin of the page. Right now it is being written by Xeni Jardin. She splits her time between LA and NYC, but is presently in the big Apple dishing lots of interesting art world links.
The wheel is turning and he can't slow down. Austria trip is on. November 23 - December 1. Let's knoll!
Earthlink has a new service to block pop up (or under) ads. That's cool, but you can already do this with mozilla (on any platform, through any ISP.)
In mozilla open preferences (in the 'edit' menu except on OS X where it's in the mozilla menu) and click on 'scripts & windows' under the 'advanced' category. Then uncheck 'open unrequested windows'. While you're at it, you probably want to uncheck 'open a link in a new window', 'move or resize windows', 'raise or lower windows', and 'change status bar text'.
Done and done.