“Groovy Motherfucker”

ASCIIfication

Apple has released a funky chunk of code which allows you to view QuickTime files as ASCII Art Movies! It does wonderful things to the example QuickTime movies on their site:

Beep Beep

Interesting to read comments from other bloggers who don’t drive. I keep on meaning to get around to getting a car, but haven’t because: a) Driving scares the bejeesus out of me, and b) I really don’t need one that badly—Boston is an incredibly pedestrian-friendly town, and the road system is confusing as all hell (and not for nothing are the drivers round here known as “massholes”)

Bargain!

I fear I may have a new addiction—The bargain-finding newssource of Nifty News, Decent Deals.

In just one morning, it has alerted me to the offers of a free super-duper high-tech pencil from Office Depot, or a 128MB Flash Card for $30 from amazon.com. I fear that this may have been an expensive find for me.

Phoenix Rising

OK, I admit it—The Mozilla Project has finally come out with a browser that would convince me to switch from IE. Phoenix 0.4 is small and nimble, but also includes all the useful bits of Mozilla (pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing and type-ahead links) in a nice shell. What’s more, all the shortcuts I’m used to (such as ALT-D to jump to the address bar) work!

Definitely getting some heady consideration in this court.