Who ever presses the 'home' button anyway?

I notice that Microsoft in their infinite wisdom removed support for "about:mozilla" from Internet Explorer in XP Service Pack 2. Type it in the address bar and instead of a pleasing blue page (which previous versions would render) IE displays its standard 'Action Cancelled' page. Unless you set about:mozilla to be your home page, in which case when IE starts it shows simply the word "Mozilla". Or you could use other text - if you set your home page to be "about:You should use Firefox instead - it's much safer" (you obviously have to do this directly in the tools\internet options dialog) then that's what you see when IE starts up, without the about:. Juvenile I know, but I'm stretching for reasons to ever use IE these days. When I use it very occasionally to test this or that it seems so clunky.

Firefox 1.0 is out today: pause to download and install it: run it and make it your default browser - your computer will thank you.

Tomorrow I am going to rasterbate

The Rasterbator - it's just a question of deciding what picture to use..

Thinking Machine 4: Play the Game

Will I beat the turbulence chess engine or will I be distracted by the pretty lights.. damn, not fair!

strtran("Hunting", "H", "C")

Saw on the back of a little car driven by a fat man:

Hunting is natural! Even foxes do it!

Maybe: but they don't dress up in colourful furs, ride on genetically mutated badgers and drive packs of sharp-toothed vicious voles in pursuit of chickens.[Edit - this is obviously inspired by (i.e. plagiarising) Bill Bailey, though I didn't realise it at the time]

Hunting may be natural, but when one species is set onto another species for the entertainment of a third (who are riding on a fourth) then we have come a long way from nature. If we allow hunters to set their dogs onto foxes, why not allow them to set their dogs against a bear when they get home? Or make the dogs fight each other?

This is why the cruelty of foxhunting is irrelevant. If you really must hunt foxes with dogs, then don't make a fucking party out of it - make it a shit job done by smelly guys in dirty jackets.

Want a bigger extension?

Come and see Huge URL - here's a sample

Fossil

my new watch

Worksafe

NICE TITS - Pictures of Tits.

No balls no babies

An ordered list to help you order your life. A bit more exhortative than my usual muck and drivel but there you go, I liked the title.

So that's what a masters in marketing qualifies you for

Giz a job French new-media stylee. Good accordian music too..

Going to dress you up in my love

In another entry to the occasional series of animal clothing, I present for your amusement and edification - dressing up cats. Warning - this page contains Comic Sans in it's most evil form.

Life goes on for the rest of us

Surprised to discover that "the experiences of dancing and programming to have a great deal in common". Perl programmers have big heads, if you ask me..

Ar Jim Lad

I liked this email telling Dreamworks' lawyers that "it is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons." That should work..

XPSP2 not secure after all, shock horror..

Scroll this web-page in Internet Explorer and then look in your startup folder. Oh dear. Fixed by the latest IE security rollup.

Crufty crufty

This article discusses how UI decisions can persist when their original rationale is gone.. I found it while wondering whether to buy UI Bloopers (I decided not to partially on the strength of the Amazon review - "For the most part, the book's value can be captured by reading the seven page table of contents carefully". Hmm, £21 for that?). I also noticed that the User Interface Hall(s) of Fame/Shame have gone, they used to be at iarchitect.com. Boo.

Skin pantones

According to this article from the Sydney Morning Herald The Simpsons' skin tone is RGB 255, 217, 15 while Marge's hair is RGB 23, 145, 255. Isn't that useful!

Oh dear, they will be cross

You're not supposed to link to the Athens 2004 web site without written permission, according to their Hyperlink Policy... oops..

Don't read this while lying on the sofa..

Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch - "After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa". Yuk.

Groomy

Here's a picture of Gaut on his wedding day - sorry there aren't more pics but I took my old camera and it turns out it's rubbish after all (I had to get a new one to realise that!)

Sidewalk Flats

Thanks to Shirley for these pictures - view the whole collection here

Kirked

Updated: this really is William Shatner covering Common People - hear more Shatner & Co here where I also found out this is a teaser for a forthcoming album.. oh brave new world that has such things in it.. Clive Banks's site is a great resource for TV SciFi fans.

Update: Shatner features in the Re-Code video.

Updated again: Klingon Google