July 2005

Essential Firefox Extensions

Everyone’s got their own list, but after I had to manually go find mine again after a Firefox browser reinstall, I thought I’d keep track of them here. * [IEview](http://downloads.mozdev.org/ieview/ieview.xpi) * [Web Developer Toolbar](http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/web_developer/web_developer-0.9.3-fx.xpi) * [Tab Clicking Options](http://downloads.mozdev.org/twanno/tabclickingoptions-0.5.2.xpi) * [Adblock](http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/adblock/adblock-0.5.2.039-fx.xpi) (and [my filters](http://ryskamp.org/adblock.txt)) * [Aardvark](http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/aardvark.xpi) * [Resizeable Textarea](http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/extfirefox/Resizeable_Textarea_0.1a.xpi)

The origin of the joystick – “Wherever the idea came from, the translation of human will into machine movement via a single stick may be one of the most overlooked achievements of the last 100 years.”

Notes from In the Beginning was the Command Line

Notes from Neal Stepheson’s In the Beginning was the Command Line. HTML as a telegram; one-way and non-interactive (obviously written before AJAX…). Anyone can learn HTML and many people do. The important thing is that no matter what splendid multimedia web pages they might represent, HTML files are just telegrams. Culture’s ok The only real…more

Mail Call

Continental Airlines didn’t get the memo; I haven’t been “Bobby” since 5th grade…

Celsius1414: Zen Pockets – being intentional about what we carry; could help the sling bag philosophy

tour.tv2.dk – UpTour – my weekend activity…

metacool: metacool Thought of the Day – Chris Conley: “The idea is not the design. Only an embodiment of the idea is design.”