Archive for July, 2008
Magnifying Taste
Magnifying Taste: New Chemicals Trick the Brain into Eating Less | Scientific American. This type of stuff is extremely cool. While the diet aspect is good for fat Americans, the ability to use more “nasty” “filler” foodstuffs could significantly aid the Third World in reducing hunger…
A Million Terrorists?
Posted by in freaky, government, philosophical, politics on July 24, 2008
A Million Terrorists? | The Foundation for Economic Education: In Brief. A-freaking-men. After having to deal with the TSA again for the third trip this summer, I’m just totally done.
There is absolutely no reason for any of the crap that they do. It’s all completely meaningless, and does nothing more than degrade what little dignity Americans have left.
I watched a bunch of TSA goons basically strip search some 70-year-old white guy because he kept setting off the metal detectors. And all the while, he was listing all of the joint replacements he’d had, while his wife just looked on in distress.
The terrorists won–no doubt about it. And that pisses me off.
Build an XP SP3 Recovery Disc
PCMag | Build an XP SP3 Recovery Disc. This is probably the easiest set of instructions I’ve seen yet to building your own recovery disk. Great stuff.
12 quick hacks for Firefox 3
Posted by in open source, technical, tools, web on July 11, 2008
Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3 – LinuxWorld. Some great tips here. And yes, you can use these tips for any version of Firefox–not just the Linux version.
Iconoid Helps You Manage Your Icons
Iconoid Helps You Manage Your Icons – AppScout. Very interesting little app, especially if you’re one of those crazy people (like me) that hate it when your icons get re-arranged on you…
allSnap
allSnap: make all windows snap. This is just sweet.
Unix window managers have done this for years–since I used the SparcStations at K-State…in 1993)–but now all of the Windows weenies can have it, too! 
SteadyState
SteadyState – Mess up, Reboot & Everything Is Fixed! | MakeUseOf.com. This is definitely useful if you want to try out some random software tool. I was a freeware junkie there for a while, and it was definitely a pain trying to recover from some of the “subpar” installers.
Back then, I used VMWare or VirtualPC. This might make all of that unnecessary.
Mint.com
Mint.com – Reviews by PC Magazine. This is a fantastic (free) online finance tool. Definitely worth looking into if you aren’t married to MSMoney or Quicken yet. Since I hate Intuit and Microsoft, it’s perfect for me!