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[egypturnash]

Spirited Away - pretty cute little hack. You could call it a very Mac take on fullscreen mode: after 30-600 seconds (your choice) of being in the background, an application is quietly hidden. Helps cut down on tempting distractions when trying to **focus** on something... especially since it's easy to turn it on and off, and tell it 'never hide this app'. Like, say, the one you're actually supposed to be working in.

I was thinking of writing something about the vast sea of stupidity that is the VCL Horrors community, and 'drama' communities. Or more generally to bitch about the way the Internet has made it really, really easy for everything horrible about high school to spill over into everything high-schoolers are involved in. But I have work to finish off, maybe later. If you can read apanthropomorph's journal, masstreble put it pretty eloquently here.

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Hmm, interesting discovery: doing pretty much anything in Flash MX04 with the Library panel open results in a flow-killing second or two of wait for me. Closing that sucker returns it to normal sluggishness. God I hate Flash. And all 2D animation online seems to involve using it.

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[bluerain.livejournal.com]

Or more generally to bitch about the way the Internet has made it really, really easy for everything horrible about high school to spill over into everything high-schoolers are involved in.

"It's white and black like industrial waste
Pollution of the highest degree
You wonder why I don't hang out much
I wonder how you can't see."
-George Harrison, "Devil's Radio"

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

I'd let them be, personally. I expect that they'll grow out of it eventually, like I did. D:

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

The Mystery Science Theatre crew had a piece of advice that I try to stick to. They said that they never read alt.mst3k or any other newsgroup, because they were afraid that they would start catering to what that group said, becoming insular and inbred, and thus losing the greater perspective.

And this was before Al Gore invented the Internet. I can't help but find it strangely prescient.

[bluerain.livejournal.com]

God, don't start repeating that old myth about Gore if you don't want me to bitch at you for an hour. :)

I do apologize

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

If anyone "invented the internet", it was the conclave who createdWinsock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsock), which is about the same time as the infamous Gore quote. Suddenly, even a dial-up AOL user could use Netscape to go anywhere on Berner-Lee's superhighway.

It shows our liberal bias in our media where Gore's comment is taken out of context, but when Bush claims to have invented the iPod (http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/bush-government-research-developed-ipod/), there's nary a peep.

And to further go off on a tanget, I wonder when the RIAA will subpoena Bush (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/16/gw_bushs_ipod_contai.html)?

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.

Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?

GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.

But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. -Source

He was refering to his advocacy of the development of the internet.

Also, you have the coolest LJ icons. Where do you get so many interesting rats?

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Also, you have the coolest LJ icons. Where do you get so many interesting rats?

Mercy buckets. Full version of many of my icons can be seen in the Raffertii Gallerii (http://home.cinci.rr.com/normanrafferty/). Yes, I pay for commissions. And yes, I do trades.

Internet-ß is ßad for your ßrain.

[xydexx.livejournal.com]

I avoid communities like that because they have so little to offer.

Who wants to gripe all the time? Where's the fun in that?