One and all should go grab the new version of firefox that’s out, it’s the best browser available these days by a long shot. Mac users will find this handy – instructions on how to make sure firefox ALWAYS opens new links in a tab instead of in a new window:

For the users that complain that links/URLs from external apps don not open in tabs but new windows you can change the behavior as follows. you need to edit the mozilla startup script(I have been doing this way back by entering some code manually but now they have in entered for you you need only comment and uncomment a line.) To do this edit //firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox You can do this on the command line with vi if you know how or you can use textedit in the finder(you must also right click/control click on your firefox application and select show package contents to do this in the finder). in the script about 190 lines down you will see two lines “_open_type=”window”” and “#_open_type=”tab”” comment the window line so that it looks like #_open_type=”window” then remove the # sign from the tab line. Now firefox will spawn new tabs from links from external apps… Hope this helps some users out there…

I got these instructions off of versiontracker.com, kudos to db23 for posting this.

And now for something completely useless, or almost – a nicely done map of Springfield, with an comprehensive set of locations from the show mapped onto the town. This is a good candidate for flashification imho, imagine binding this with a bunch of media assets from the show (audio, still images, video and so on).

So, once again my body is complaining. This time I’ve come down with an internal infection, probably e coli bacteria, and it’s attacked one of my internal organs. Fun stuff. I’m on a course of antibiotics to fend it off, and hopefully it will clear up without too much trouble. But anyway that’s why I haven’t posted in about a week. I’m feeling somewhat better now. The worst thing for me is, no exercise for at least a couple of weeks, and I had stopped exercising a few weeks ago when I first started feeling sick, so by the time this is all through I’ll have gone at least a month without any real exercise. I’ve already lost 4-5 pounds (I was 157 when I weighed myself this morning), and I think it’s basically all muscle mass I’ve lost. Lame. Let me tell you, this aging business in conjunction with crappy genes is the pits.

My bet is there’s been more than one time in your life that you wished you knew that this website existed so you could send the url to someone who’s just asked you a ridiculously dumb question. Well, now you know, and so the question becomes: do you have the chutzpah to actually send it? More than one of you is likely to see this one at some point or another coming from my IM client to yours 😉