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Posted by fatius at May 25th, 2007

you could be a part time model.

—Flight of the Conchords

Posted by fatius at May 24th, 2007

I heard somebody say, it’s interesting, because it’s not the planet that’s in danger, the planet will be fine. It’s just that all the humans will be gone.

-David Letterman to Al Gore.

Posted by fatius at May 24th, 2007

… in the lottery at least.

—West fumes after Trail Blazers win draft lottery - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

Anyone recall another fateful year that the Blazers had a really good lottery number? No? Well they passed on Michael Jordan in 1984. Nice move.

Posted by fatius at May 23rd, 2007

What happens in beta stays in beta.

– Jakob

Posted by fatius at May 22nd, 2007

wish my headphones paused my iTunes when I took them off my head.

—Obeastiality

Tumblr (which powers Jakob’s site) has inspired me to get wordpress playing nicely with “Links” and “Quotes,” sadly I had to edit PHP code to get it to happen… oh well, at least it’s working.

Posted by fatius at May 22nd, 2007

Wow, this trip combined the glamour of sweating with the convenience of not stopping.

– daily show on an immigration “experience”

Posted by fatius at May 4th, 2007

A few months ago (give or take), nytimes.com added a feature that opened a popup window when you double clicked on a word in an article. It pops up a dictionary definition of the selected word.

Well, when I read the stuff on the web, I compulsively click on and select the text. I don’t know why I do it, perhaps you do it to. My little habit and the new feature were not compatible… until today.

Here’s how you disable that feature in Firefox:

If you haven’t already, install the adblock extension. Click on it and filter the following text out:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/*altClickToSearch.js

Click on the image to see the adblock window:

Tada!