Koda

Google: Morbidly Lazy

Go to any computer running Firefox, click on the url bar, and type in “morbidly lazy”…

I have nothing else to say about this.

So much to do and yet so little time.

Wikipedia: Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Part of me can’t help but want to flag it as biased.

(Shamelessly cross-posted from widelysociallyacceptableART)

The more I do, the more I feel I am inconsistent. It’s Not That I Am Not Usually Consistent, but it’s that i feel im inconsistently consistent. It’s a problem, because I’m not sure which is worse, being consistently inconsistent, or Inconsistently Consistent? consistency is arguably not the highest good, after all. but Yet i Think That Since i Give So Much Thought To It, i Should At Least Figure Something Out. I mean, well, what do I mean anyway? I guess what im trying to say is that the more I try to be consistent, the less I end up being. Then there is the issue of whether or not the underlying problem is that my standard is inconsistent above all. so if i have no base upon which to measure my consistency, WHAT DO i KNOW? If I am consistently inconsistant, that could be considered as consistincy in a sense. But if I am inconsistantly consestint, dus that make me consistint at all? In a sence, no, but perhaps then im conscisstant at least to some people. Am I trying too hard to please everybody? The more I think about it, being consistintly consistant or inconsistantly unconsistent are undesirable states. I would much rather be either unconsistantly consistent or consistently unconsistant. That way, I can at least make the excuse that I\’m not forcing things. But now I have so much doubt, I’m probably going to end up being inconsistuntly consistently unconsistent. What do you want people, What DO you want?

Apologies for the lack of updates. Over winter break I simply haven’t been able to bring myself to posting here.

No matter! Here’s something I’ve been meaning to share for a while. I know it’s kind of long, but bear with me. It will be worth it.

I am a long time believer in the art of English hacking (or English abuse, if you like). I’ve never taken a formal course on Linguistics or similar topics, but I’ve always had an attraction to messing with bits of the English and seeing what breaks first. For a time, IRC was the
medium of choice. I downloaded a copy of gNiall, and soon became fascinated with it. Essentially, a random phrase generator that knows what words can go after the other, the Niall program because the object of my new obsession. In a short bit of time I had written a Python port of the main AI code (more details at the site). Excited with my achievement, I munged it into an IRC bot and promptly annoyed the hell out of my channel mates. It was beautiful.

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So, surely by now we’ve all heard about the new and fancy Firefox 1.5… and how much it will totally rock your socks. It’s clear that a lot of good work has gone into this one.

Where do I start? There’s the new: SVG, Canvas, and CSS3 Column support, as well as better caching under the hood. On Linux, the GUI has become much peppier, with the tab bar and window resizing now redrawing quickly. DHTML seems to have been given a bit of attention too, as I can only recall how painfully slow moo.fx moved on Firefox 1.0 (click on the green buttons) even on my P4 2.8… I was pleasantly surprised to see it moving wonderfully smooth in this new version. Oh, and Firefox is not vulnerable to the recently discovered “Extremely Critical” Internet Explorer Vulnerability (discaimer: Firefox *will* crash from the exploit, but is not subject to the IE bug that allows remote code to be run)

Now, what if I were to tell you that you could even further the aforementioned rocking-your-socksage in this version? Here’s a few must-have extensions to start you out.

I’ve been using the wonderful Tab Preview for a few weeks… and it’s become so ingrained in my browsing style that I’ve stopped thinking about it. And yet, the 1.5-enabled thumbnailing frenzy doesn’t stop there! Do yourself a favor and pick up Viamatic foXpose. This deceptively simple Firefox extension will take all of your currently open tabs and tile them in your browsing space - perfect for finding that elusive page you made a mental note to get back to.

If you’re like me, and have always found Firefox’s sidebar interface a little bit clunky, you’ll be overjoyed when you first try out All-In-One Sidebar. This little wonder not only reorganizes all of Firefox’s existing sidebars into a pretty buttonbar at the left, but hooks into the Firefox UI and turns the dialogs for Downloads, Themes, Extensions, Page Info, and the Source Viewer (whew!) into sidebars as well. There’s more - All-In-One Sidebar doesn’t simply copy the interfaces verbatim, but improves upon them. For instance, text boxes in the sidebar have a handy “X” button, allowing you to clear their contents with a click. Each sidebar has it’s own Tools menu that provides extra functions. Possibly the best part about this extension is that every element of it’s organization and behavior is customizable.

Found a website that shuts you out for using Firefox? There are many user agent switcher interfaces available for Firefox. Named simply enough, User Agent Switcher is my personal favorite. It does all that should be expected from it’s name, and has a clean, customizable interface. There are several ways to access User Agent Switcher’s interface, which comes with three default modes: Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 4.8, and Opera 8. More can be added, if you please.

Looking good! That’s all I have for now - be sure to browse the whole collection on Mozilla’s webpage. Many more goodies can be found there.

Enjoy, and remember - Spread Firefox!

Tired of finding Homeworld in your Starcraft case, and two audio cds in your Homeworld case? I am. True ninja are never without cases for their CDs.

This is seriously the coolest thing I’ve seen for a long time. Not only can you demonstrate your supreme coolness to all your friends, but you can be a ninja at the same time by mastering this excercise in the fine art of Japanese paper folding.

Go check out this HowTo, and attain that precious one step closer to geek nirvana.