…no more. Our
Kirsten Johnson’s brilliant Touchy-feely series came in the
mail this weekend. Tanya read about it on the
blog. It’s amazing that the architects in the 1910’s foresaw this
day when we could put use this painting to fill the void above our
fireplace!
I recently wanted to see some old satellite photos of my neighborhood.
As far as I know, you can’t do this with
predates Google). I start with a URL like this:
Breaking down the querystring, we get:
Some additional poking could be done to understand whether scene 3
exists and what it contains and to understand the relationship of
zoom-level to x and y coordinates, but I was content to get the 1990
images from around my house.
This is the obvious and crowning achievement in the feature that IE
has had for a while but left undocumented in
SearchUrl regkey and which is a
in Firefox (Keywords or Quicksearches). Briefly, the behavior lets
you more quickly navigate various web forms by specifying some prefix
for some destination form and then and then handling “[prefix] [search
string]” in the address bar. For instance, I use “bus” as my prefix to
search the King County Metro
website for bus schedules so “bus 242″ gets me the schedule for route
242. The hassle has always been hacking the destination URL to figure
out what token you need where in the querystring to make the form
behave like you want.
Firefox is like crack!
A Jar of Red HerringsThere’s a lot we don’t know about this case. But these things are clear:
- Journalists should not tailor their principles to the politics of the moment.
- Coerced waivers of confidentiality are meaningless.
- Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
“Nobody was wearing old beach flip-flops,” said Josephs, who wore a
$16 brown pair with rhinestones.
(Yahoo!)
“$16 flip-flops” - that’s how.
I can’t believe it took me this long to realize this, but I just
figured out that in emacs auto-mode-alist takes a regular
expression as its argument to indicate the mode for some set of
files. Typically, you tell it something like “\\.html$”
should be html-mode but I can just as easily say
“/path/to/my/home/.*\\.txt$” is also “html-mode”.
I’m interested in this since blosxom’s files are html (so I’d like my
editor to treat them as such) but I left the default configuration
setting so they have the *.txt extension. A similar alist entry could
be used to make *.bat files under some path start up in cperl mode, in
case some slacker left the “# -*- mode:cperl -*-” hint off them.
Last night we went to the
Tavern in Ballard to see Evan Dando. By about 11:15, opening acts
Colin Spring and Smile Brigade finished their opening sets and
something happened I’ve never seen at a concert. The bar owner got on
the mic and asked “Has anybody seen Evan Dando? Because we haven’t
either…” My brother had seen him in the Twin Cities before at clubs
where the show organizers were afraid because they hadn’t seen him in
a while but this time he’d never even showed. Kind of a drag, but
sort of funny. I guess it’s no surprise.
Ambrose says:btw, where can I get more free emoticons?
So I finally checked out
idea from Chris and wrote a script that adds “play” links to the
This is tremendously more convenient than finding something you want
to hear in the playlist, then navigating to the
archive page and entering the exact start time of what you wanted
to hear.
To install, you need firefox and
greasemonkey. Then it’s
installed like any greasemonkey script - browse
User Script. Once its installed, you may want to edit the script to
change your stream preference (the default is 96k wma). No other
modifications should be required.
HAS to be a Dinosaur Jr. reunion - and
what we get this year! Lou’s even back - this is awesome! I saw
Dinosaur Jr. years ago on the Green Mind tour and later in 1995 with
Sonic Youth but they were kind of drifting into whatever the weird
direction was J was taking them in by that time. Tour dates
up on the Merge Records webpage.