Month: January 2005
Lousy Weather
It’s not lousy here in Bend — quite nice, actually — but there are some places in Minnesota that are just really nasty hitting minus 54 degrees. Just check out this video of cars just sliding down a hill, with their owners desperately holding onto their car handles or bailing out at the last minute.
The Most Annoying Web Page
Set this as your friend’s start page and watch the fun commence.
LazyWeb Request: Googlebar Disappeared From Firefox
OK, I can’t find a solution for this anywhere. My Googlebar disappeared off my toolbars in Firefox 1.0. It shows up as an installed extension in the extension window, I’ve removed/reinstalled it, even tried replacing it with the PRGoogleBar variant, and it still does not show up as an option when I right-click on the toolbar — the only ones there are my Navigation Toolbar, Bookmarks Toolbar, and Web Developer Toolbars. I’ve updated all my extensions, just to make sure there’s not something going wonky (conflict, etc…).
I use my GoogleBar a ton every day. Anybody have any idea how to get this thing back?
Update: I’m an idiot. Read the comments below….
Huh?
How could you be totally unaware that a 10-centimeter (4 inch) nail has been stuck in your head for six days? Full Story. Thanks a few folks for the link, mostly William.
SNL Transcripts
This is why the Internet is wonderful. Where else can you find 2,524 transcripts from Saturday Night Live?
Flame Warriors
Every person who starts (or participates) in a flame war generally can be described just like one of these folks.
Microsoft Rules The HyperText Transfer Protocol?
More by accident (and thanks to Firefox’s autosearch if it can’t find the URL), I accidently typed “http” (and that’s it) into my URL field. Firefox, by default, goes to Google, and then directs you to the first result it finds. What I thought was interesting is that first site when you search for http is Microsoft, followed by Yahoo, Altavista, World Wide Web Consortium, CNN, Excite, Lycos, Amazon, Adobe, and Mapquest (rounding out the top 10). Google shows up on page two, along with The New York Times, Netscape, Real, the World Health Organization, Mozilla.org, Ask.com, IMDB, Winzip, and PHP.net.
Similar results for other protocols aren’t happening because, generally, other protocols are used in product/site names (FTP, Gopher, NNTP, etc…).
I do find it interesting the variety of types of links that are showing up. For the most part, this is a “Who’s Who” of the Web. Anybody have any theories on why certain sites are showing up here versus others?