If you don’t have Firefox on Android (and you use Firefox elsewhere), get it. Auto syncing bookmarks between phone and pc is awesome.
There’s a guy at work whose office is along the main hallway I take to get to my office. I have a habit of looking around when I walk down the hallway. His desk faces the hallway and it often seems like I’m looking in there at him and he makes eye contact.
Sorry random guy, I know it’s kind of awkward for both of us.
If you use Firefox on more than one PC, Mozilla weave is great.
I used to be an avid Google bookmarks user but all the plugins for Firefox got bogged down with my giant numbers of bookmarks. Weave puts it all in the bookmarks folder natively, which means it’s fast fast fast.
You also have the option to sync history across machines, which I will like most when FF mobile becomes a reality on my EVO, but is still pretty darn useful when I notice something at lunch at work and forget to bookmark it to look at home.
I have been playing entirely too much Minecraft. It has overtaken Starcraft on my fanhood scale for the time being, even.
SEATTLE 1:30 AM
Eating hot dogs from the vendor at the Shell station at Pike and Broadway. Man with long hair and a tight baby blue lycra body suit comes up and squats on the pavement. He produces a naked Barbie doll and a recorder, and proceeds to rhythmically whack the Barbie against the pavement while playing a completely accurate “Deck the Halls.”
This happens at least once every ten games laddering in Starcraft 2:
If you’re doing a cheesy build and it doesn’t work, you’re in deep. In most of these instances, defense has the advantageous map position and the edge in economy because you had to bring 1/6 of your workers over to build your proximity gateway, and since you want a constant stream of 2 gateways worth of units, you have to continue to cut probes to fund your stream of zealots. The main thing these builds have going for them is surprise, and if you give that away by zapping my building SCV way before I know is smart to build a pylon, you’ve given that away already.
My only guess is that the people that complain like this are doing the same thing for 90% of their games. When it doesn’t work and they’re forced to try other things, they fail because they’re not practiced in the different style and they get frustrated. It’s fine if you don’t want to take the game seriously enough to practice all the different combinations of things you can do, but if you’re complaining about imbalance when all you’re doing is essentially bashing your head against the wall, that’s scrubby behavior.
“In a nutshell:
Your power grid is neutral. You can plug in any standardized appliance to any standardized outlet in your home. No one else on the grid can pay more money than you to ensure that they get some “higher quality” power, or still get power when you have a blackout. The power company doesn’t charge you a tiered pricing structure where you can power your refridgerator and toaster for $10 per month, and add your dryer for $20 more, and then add in a range, foreman grill and curling iron for an additional $30 on top of that.
If your appliance fits in the standardized plug, you get the same power that everyone else does.
Your cable TV is not neutral. You pay one price for maybe 20 channels, and then tack on an extra $50, and you get $100 channels and a cable box. For another $40, you get “premium” channels. If your cable company doesn’t carry the channels you want, it’s just too bad. You can’t get them.
The large telecoms and cableco’s aims to gut the internet as we know it. As it stands, you plug in your standardized computer to your standarized outlet, and, assuming that you have service, you can get to any website on the net. The telecoms and cableco’s want to make it so that if you pay $10 a month, you get “basic internet”, maybe only getting to use the cableco’s search engine, and their email portal. For $20 more, they’ll let you get to Google, Twitter and MySpace. For $40 on top of that, you can get to Facebook, YouTube and Reddit. For $150 a month, you might be able to get to all the internet sites.
On top of that, the cableco’s and telecoms want to charge the provider, which could be Google, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc, to allow their websites to reach the cableco/telecom’s customers.
So, not only are you paying your ISP to use Google, but Google has to pay your ISP to use their pipes to get their information to you.
This is the simplest explanation that I can think of. Go read up on the subject and get involve. Please
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Reddit user Shizzo, on Reddit, what the heck is net neutrality? Probably a bit more extreme than what would happen outright, but more likely a worst-case scenario.
I monitor a few YouTube channels for updates. I do this with the RSS feeds for that channel, rather than subscribing to them in YouTube, because that way I can keep track of which videos I’ve watched in Google Reader with its sense of read vs unread.
I’ve attempted to catch up on channels on the bus, but most mobile implementations I’ve seen for YouTube are tailored for search or what’s popular; channels only go back ten at a time and in reverse chronological order. If you’re way behind on a channel, this makes it hard to find the video you want to start at.
Combining the built-in Android YouTube app with an app called Feedr has given me my best implementation to date: all the entries in the feed are in the list and only the ones I haven’t seen are synced by default.
You can learn more about Feedr on their homepage. It’s $2 in the Android Marketplace.
“ The backroom scheme of the [National Association of Broadcasters] and RIAA to have Congress mandate broadcast radios in portable devices, including mobile phones, is the height of absurdity […] Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that do. ”
Consumer Electronics Association president Gary Shapiro, regarding the NAB and RIAA’s suggestion that Congress should mandate that FM radio receivers be built into cell phones, PDAs, and other portable electronics.
10/2: Nicole Atkins & Black Keyes
10/4: Land of Talk
10/5: Klaxons
10/7: Frightened Rabbit
10/9: Eels
10/10: Broken Social Scene
10/14: Anberlin
10/19: Starfucker and Octopus Project (or: Say Anything)
10/21: The Weepies
10/26: Apples in Stereo
10/28: Ingrid Michaelson
10/29: Dr. Dog
10/30: Sufjan Stevens
Here’s something I was thinking about writing, but LifeHacker has a very nifty article already put together as of this morning.
If you haven’t checked out Tasker for your Android, I highly recommend it.
Tired of dragging Starcraft 2 custom maps to the launcher to play them? If you’re using Windows 7, pin your favorite ones by dragging them to the shortcut on the taskbar(/Start menu):
This way you can just right click the shortcut and click the map you want to launch.
