Adam Fields (weblog)

$240,000 of taxpayer money paid to commentator Armstrong Williams to promote the No Child Left Behind act.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=2&u=/usatoday/20050107/ts_usatoday/whitehousepaidcommentatortopromotelaw

I’ve started collecting simple rules for safe use of the internet.

http://www.internetrules.info/

‘And so bringing, you know, muscles built during The X-Files and X-Files movie and Reign of Fire, I thought, ‘I understand how to make this film.’” ‘

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=30110

Newsflash, dumbass – you’ve made two of the most confusing, pointless pieces of sf crap to hit the screen in the past ten years, and you’re just driving nails into the coffin of your credibility by mentioning them in public.

Last night, we were invited for drinks at a preview opening for Bed NY, a new restaurant opening tonight. The space is a pretty impressive loft. The bar is in the middle, flanked by a speckled curved wall onto which video can be projected. A number of bed/dining lounges lined the edges of the room. I was a bit surprised to see the central space largely taken up by a few giant tables instead of keeping with the “dining in bed” motif.
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Popgadget found these shoes with interchangeable variable height heels.

http://www.culturelab-uk.com/site/templates/issue1/item_culturelab.asp?ID=187

If you’re trying to match an AGP video board to an existing AGP slot, this page has a lot of helpful information:

http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_nikkel/agpcompatibility.html

Firefox has a little-known feature called custom keywords – they’re sort of like macros with parameters for urls.

This is the only documentation I could find about it (there may be more functionality that’s not listed here):

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

Essentially, you can define a short string and use that instead of the full url, plus a substitution.

For example, if you wanted to search my blog, you could add a bookmark with the url “http://www.aquick.org/blog/index.php?s=%s&submit=Search” and a keyword “aquick”. Then, typing “aquick copying” in the address bar would give you all of the posts on copying.

Personally, I find this incredibly useful.