Archive for October, 2006

There’s an Automat on St. Marks!

I’ve wanted to eat at one of these places my whole life. I seriously was considering going to Japan just to get to try one. We’d just eaten and were stuffed, but I definitely want to make our way back there at some point! Bamn donuts, new york grilled cheese, roast pork bun, mac & cheese [ READ MORE ]

How to turn off Firefox 2’s scrolling tab bar

After using it for a day, one more thing drove me batty about Firefox 2. With more than a few tabs open, they started scrolling all over the place, making it extremely difficult to jump back and forth between them. Here’s how to turn the tab scrolling feature off: Go to about:config Filter for the word tab set browser:tabs:tabMinWidth [ READ MORE ]

Easily get rid of the “close tab” buttons in Firefox 2

Okay. I already love Firefox 2 for the integrated spell-checker alone, and as someone who often has way too many tabs open, I appreciate the new little interface at the right of the tab bar for listing them. That said, I’m perfectly comfortable middle-clicking (pressing down my mouse wheel, for the un-initiated) to open and [ READ MORE ]

Clipmarks is a Firefox “Featured Plugin”!

Okay, I’ve been a little quiet about this so far here on the blog, but today I’ve got an amazing reason to break the silence! I’ve been spending my Thursdays with the excellent folks at Clipmarks for a few weeks now, helping to brainstorm about how to build and strengthen the Clipmarks community, and [ READ MORE ]

Sushi Lotto

“Well…” I thought to myself as I walked past, “If you buy it from this place, yes, it probably is.” [ READ MORE ]

I don’t know if other folks will love it…

I don’t know if other folks will get quite a big a kick of it as I do, I’m really happy with the latest episode of Felt Up TV. I ran around interviewing folks at Podcamp Boston like crazy, and it yielded lots of funny little moments that I’m getting to rediscover all over again [ READ MORE ]

IE7 sucks, and it’s not even done installing yet!

I’m installing IE7 now so that I can test this final release version against the sites I run and see what gets broken (and what finally, hopefully, works). The download was speedy, but it’s been 10 minutes and I still don’t have IE7 running on this machine. Let’s take a quick tour of where IE7, which [ READ MORE ]

6 cool things you missed at Digital Life

Thanks to the awesome folks at Blip.tv, Sara, Kelly, and I got a chance to attend Digital Life this weekend. Like many trade shows it was very crowded and a lot of vendors made me scratch my head, but there were a few standout showings. Here’s 6 cool things you missed. Zazzle Zazzle is an “on demand” [ READ MORE ]

“Skiffy” used as an adjective

It’s not every day you see one of your old, obscure high-school nicknames show up on the web, and certainly not used as an adjective! Cory Doctorow used “Skiffy” today, and I had to go look it up: Dibbell is a sharp writer and a sharp thinker, and the book is dense with ideas so skiffy and [ READ MORE ]

Sick of the daily grind? Quit your job and raise Alpacas!

While up in rochester we visited an open house at a local Alpaca farm. We hung out there for a few hours and visited with the owners. They were very sweet, and were quite frank about the costs and profits of running their farm. It’s apparently a very profitable business if you can do [ READ MORE ]

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