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autosize

I hate it when a website auto-resizes your main browser window. There is simply no good explanation for why programmers do this, let alone, why javascript allows code to change the dimensions of your only active window. I get that some people have small screens, but seriously? Do you have to assume that I don't know how to make the browser bigger or heaven forbid I have to use the scrollbars. I know there are options in Firefox to disable script access to this, but really? I have to turn it off for every site because some programmers were too busy to check if their window is already big enough to see the terrible flash rich content I'm about to throw using? My display has 2560pixels wide by 1600pixels high.. Couldn't say everything you wanted to say about [Insert Retarded Motion Picture ADVersite Here] with only 4 million pixels?

get an rss reader (aka, use an rss reader)

this is a story about using an rss reader. They are great. You don't have to go to the website anymore, just sit back and have it download new articles for you. Pretty much all blogs and websites provide rss streams for you now. You can even follow comments without needing to refresh

for osx: Use NetNewsWire
It's fast, configurable, looks nice, lightweight, rad

for win: use NetNewsWire for osx on the mac you are going to buy, or use google reader with some kind of notifier. Or I think firefox can act as an rss reader. use that

Congrats grad, you now will waste more time watching your rss reader and immediately switch from whatever you are doing to it when you see a new article has popped up.

Oh, and..


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what's in it for them

Apparently, 50% of all illegal bittorrents are TV episodes. For a long time, networks have viciously been going after people for downloading their shows instead of watching them for free over the air and skipping over commercials anyways.

Anyhoo. Remember when NBC withdrew their support of iTunes sales? Well, that's when this whole Hulu thing started to happen. I got my beta invite the other day and was just looking through it. Seems like a really snappy webplayer, all done in flash (Note* You do not need more than flash to deliver content stupid idiot networks forcing me to install some crappy DRM management plugin) So I caught the last 15 minutes of that House episode that aired after the superbowl, and then some Conan. No commercials at this point, which leads me to ask.

What's in it for these guys? Are they eventually going to a pay system, or are they finally going to accept that an ad on the side of the page is enough? Anyhoo, with the writers actually getting paid for these internet views now, we'll probably have to start paying for a service like this just so the networks can break even

let's get real.. and physical

well well well. It's been a while reader. How have I been you ask? I'm doing great. I'd ask how you're doing, but we both know that neither cares for the answer

today is a super day. It's time to vote, and while I'm not going to tell you what to do, I thought I'd take this time to write about something I've noticed in this latest of presidential campaigns.

First of all, people seem to choose the candidate they think will win, regardless of if they think that candidate represents them. I can only imagine how proud they are when the go home and find out "their" candidate won!! Oh man, they are a winner, which means that their vote was a winner, which means they are a winner. Who cares that the voter disagrees with the fact that "their" candidate wants to legalize killing everyone who's name starts with T (I'm looking at you Selleck.) I mean, the guy this voter liked had invented a new energy source out of salt water, but they weren't a top tier candidate, and didn't really get that much media coverage, so it's a good thing the vote went to the winner. This leads me to my next point

If you have ever made a political decision based of a "paid for by" ad, then you need to jump yourself off a cliff. I'll wait. Didn't kill you? Ok, Read on. I know most people claim to "hate" or "laugh" at these ads, but I know there are some of you who watch deal or no deal and half way through say to yourself "holy crap. I thought wwii really happened, but this commercial is saying it didn't, AND it says these are the FACTS! wtf am I going to do now? I guess I better vote yes to taxing Tom Selleck 80% more than myself"

Next is what I call "the party line" or "the party joke." There's always that candidate that people hear just enough about to think that this guy/gal must be a weirdo, and enough pundits seem to think so too, so this must be the joke. The problem is, they don't have a clue what this candidate stands for. They just know that the news doesn't like them. Or that they didn't win "The Hiphugger Pole." They also hear about a selected group of candidates that are the front runners. Have you ever noticed that there are 3-5 more candidates than you see in the media every election? Why do you think it's ok to give any single one of them more coverage than another before you know anything about them? Face it. The party line always comes from the media telling you who is this years "joke." You were too stupid or drunk to figure out who the real joke is. This is an intervention, and America doesn't look happy with you

Don't vote for someone, just because a celebrity endorsed them.

Don't vote for someone because they cried.

Don't vote for someone because they are the same race as you.

Don't vote for someone because the guy you like "doesn't have a chance"

Don't vote for someone because they "have the best chance at winning"

Be selfish. What do you want? What candidate reflects your personal beliefs? Stop using the "main talking points" Know how the candidates feel about every issue. Pick the one that you want to represent YOU.

How I feel: (You can stop reading now, I just wanted to write out why I'm voting for Ron Paul) Consistent voting record since entering office. Still thinks the Constitution is important. Understands economics. Against the patriot act. Against nation building (if you voted for Bush in 00, you voted for that; even though it didn't work out like that.) Smaller Fed, larger state. There's more, google him
I don't get why people think there are only two ways to make an economy work. Raise taxes, spend more, or, lower taxes, spend more, go into debt. Why aren't republicans mad about our national debt? Why do democrats think we should tax more and just spend the hell out of everything? Why are we in a war still/at all? Everyone of the candidates, minus Paul, voted for Iraq. Suck on that you hippies.