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| Tuesday, October 12, 2010 03:56 PM |
| Recyclotron |
 by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
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| Friday, September 4, 2009 01:29 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- I do believe the above video is what made me decide definitively that I am a fan of Them Crooked Vultures. (Via)
- Lately it seems like Agent M is posting more excellently random and odd images than he was wont to in the past. I present exhibits A, B, C, D, and E.
- Awesome. (Via)
- Ah ha ha ha ha! Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie," featuring Danzig. (Via)
- An amusing Harry Potter/Inglourious Basterds mashup.
- This is a video of Jack Black fronting the Go-Gos with backing vocals by Beck and Matthew Sweet on guitar. Apparently the video is from this Earth, too, and not Earth A or Earth Prime. (Via)
- A list of the greatest superheroes of all time. The top 10 is coming next week. So far the picks are pretty good, although I take issue with the order. (Via)
- Disapproving Rabbits. That is all. (Via)
- Supposedly some dude has a stuffed chupacabra. Although as poppy pointed out to me, it mostly just looks like a rather unfortunate dog. (Via)
- Call me childish if you will, but this MagiQuest thing sounds totally awesome to me.
- YouTube is going to start offering a service where you can pay to rent premium movies from major studios.
- Besides all the other awesome things they can do, lasers can apparently also cool things down really fast. When do I get my laser refrigerator??
- The official explanation for why GMail went down.
- Game|Life runs down 5 cool new features in Guitar Hero 5.
- Megan Fox says some rather unfavorable things about Michael Bay, even going so far as to compare him to Hitler, thus, by law, bringing an immediate end to the discussion. So let's move onto something else more interesting, like Megan Fox making out with Amanda Seyfried (via)!
- DC Comics' Lobo is going to be a movie, and Guy Ritchie is going to direct it. Hmm... something tells me that's not going to go well.
- Iron Man 2 might be in 3D! That would be hot.
- As a whole, movies did well this summer. But not every individual movie. In fact, one did particularly badly.
- Wanna have a Windows 7 house party??? Wow, that's lame.
- Internet usage is highest at 11PM EST. Huh. I'm usually asleep by then! Apparently I'm missing the party.
- 10 handy userscripts for Google Chrome.
- Clancy "Kurgan" Brown talks about playing Lex Luthor in the animated movie Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
- Cool free desktop wallpapers: Mario Bros. (via) and battle landscapes (via).
- Japan! The country's first-lady-to-be says aliens took her to Venus. Also, Japan is planning an orbiting solar power station that will beam enough energy back to Earth to power 294,000 homes.
- Star Trek is coming back to IMAX theaters this weekend. Sweet!
- Hints about where Dollhouse is headed next.
- A glimpse at the next Simpsons Halloween special.
- I for one am glad that IGotYouAManEatingPit.com exists. (Via)
- I don't know about this list of the top ten sci-fi mind control movies. It seems to me some of these are only marginally about mind control.
- I also don't know about this movie Defendor. Looks kind of sad and strange. Check out the trailer.
- Now this is a cool hotel: it's a zeppelin-shaped retreat built among the trees in Australia.
- io9 takes a look through various stories about mutants and devises 13 rules for making a mutant.
- This trailer for the new Star Blazers movie features laser space battles! And who doesn't love laser space battles, I ask you?
- A zombie nutcracker. (Via)
- An interesting clip from the Dollhouse episode "Epitaph 1," which I really have to see one of these days. (Via)
- Wow, there were two Twin Peaks games! I'd love to play the adventure board game, The Game of Twin Peaks. (Via)
- Ah ha ha ha, that's one awesome bug. (Via Sarah)
- So you know how in infomercials they always show you this imaginary problem that their product solves, and the scene where the problem is reenacted is always filmed in nightmarish black and white? Here's a collection of all of those scenes! It's Infomercial Hell. (Via)
- The top 10 video games that need movie treatments. "Need" seems like a strong word, but some of these would indeed be interesting to see on the big screen, if the right people were involved in adapting them. (Via)
- Previews of The Marvels Project #2 (via) and Supergod (via). Warren Ellis is a sick, sick man who lives to destroy and deface all the things you love and hold dear. Bless him.
- 12 geeky cocktails for you.
- Wired maps the US by the 7 deadly sins.
- 7 ways to see the world through Twitter's eyes. Also, a handy way to keep track of free giveaways on Twitter.
- Cinematical's Best Superhero Movie of All Time Tournament is getting down to the big finish now. I'm happy to say that when I voted, my choices were winning.
- Very disappointing: Microsoft gets to keep selling Word.
- A look at some of the games that were considered for Wii Sports Resort, but ultimately rejected.
- Heh. This T-shirt that imagines Alice in Wonderland as an RPG is pretty clever (via). And here's Matt Frewer talking about playing the White Knight in Syfy's upcoming Alice adaptation.
- Steam Punk Avengers and Space boy. (Via)
- This faux commercial for Rock Band: Radiohead is a little unfair in its harsh depiction of the band and its music... but still funny.
- Wow! The legal fight over the Superman: Man of Steel reboot is getting pretty personal!
- Tron: Legacy is coming out on 12/17/2010, the same day as The Green Hornet! Speaking of TGH, they started shooting it finally.
- New images from the upcoming sci-fi film Pandorum. Looks rather neat.
- Tiny robots!
- Star Wars religious art. The Boba Fett tattoo is pretty fantastic.
- I love this movie mashup image.
- Heh. An amusing look at the evolution of Nintendo consoles and controllers. (Via)
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| Tuesday, September 9, 2008 09:14 AM |
| A Flaw in the Chrome |
 by Fëanor |
OK, found a big flaw in Chrome: the "Find in page" feature does not search the text in text fields or text areas. For me, this is a huge problem, as I'm constantly entering large amounts of text into text areas, and I often need to search that text.
Lame! I want a patch. Patch me, Google!
Oh, and I just found out a cool little javascript thing I made for my blog, which works in IE and Firefox, doesn't work in Chrome. I'm feeling like my honeymoon with Chrome is about to come to an end...
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| Thursday, September 4, 2008 01:44 PM |
| (Last updated on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 09:14 AM) | | Chrome |
| by Fëanor |
Have you tried Google's new browser yet? I installed it on our laptop last night and did some blogging in it, and after about ten minutes I was ready to declare it my new favorite browser. I've been using it heavily at work today, too, and although I'm slightly less enthusiastic about it now, I still think it's a pretty excellent program, especially considering it's still in beta.
I'm not used to jumping from one browser to another willy-nilly. In fact, I used Internet Explorer pretty much exclusively ever since I got on the internet, up until a couple of months ago, when I finally got fed up with IE's constant crashing (especially when using Find in Page - trust Microsoft to make a function as simple as finding text in a document so complex that it crashes the entire program one in three times you use it) and switched over to Firefox. Since then, I've mostly enjoyed using Firefox, but it does have some small quirks that annoy me (mostly having to do with its behavior in response to script functions on certain pages that I use a lot), so I was willing to give Chrome a try. I was very excited to discover that Chrome has the same stripped-down kind of interface as Firefox, but none of those annoying quirks (read: blogging in Movable Type and on my own site is a smoother and more pleasant experience). It uses screen space very efficiently, giving the web page itself as much of the square footage as possible by dispensing with the title bar, menu bar, and even the status bar (the latter being replaced with a small message box that pops up only when needed on top of the web page in the bottom corner). Using one entry field for both search and URL input was a smart move, as was the cool "Paste and Go" feature in that field. Of course, Chrome doesn't work perfectly with everything on the internet yet (it is a brand new browser, after all); it does have some of its own annoying quirks (why dispense with so many of the other toolbars and then require the bookmark toolbar to be on the screen for me to be able to access my bookmarks at all?); and it's running a bit slow, especially when switching tabs. But the latter could have more to do with my computer, and all the other stuff I'm running on it, than with Chrome itself.
The point is, I give it a big thumbs up, and it's going to be my browser from now until it does something I can't live with - or I find another, better browser.
UPDATE:
Another thing I like about Chrome: the look, the design, the logo. The ability to open an incognito window, that does not record your browsing history and so forth, is pretty sweet, too. And there are some great tools for developers, like javascript debugging and the inspect element function, not to mention the task manager.
Other things I dislike about Chrome: one of my favorite features on the newest versions of the other big browsers is the ability to automatically clear your cache, your history, and other such files whenever you close the browser. I can't fathom why Chrome is lacking this functionality. |
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