A couple of weeks ago I posted about Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension. Today I wrote my first command for it: mooch, which will search BookMooch for selected text on a page (or whatever you type in). If you're using Ubiquity, you can now add the command to your installation. … [Read more...] about Ubiquity command for BookMooch
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Boojum
Download 'Boojum,' by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette — in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day. … [Read more...] about Boojum
TwitterKeys
TwitterKeys — "TwitterKeys is a browser bookmarket that pulls up expressive characters for easy copy & paste of all those crazy unicode symbols that people love to include in their emails and blog posts." Very handy. See also: ⌘C ⌘V Character. … [Read more...] about TwitterKeys
crafty business cards
The great Before & After Magazine talks about designing business cards for arts and crafts sales, including tips on photographing the items. … [Read more...] about crafty business cards
Firefly streaming free
If you have not yet seen Firefly (infidel!), it's now streaming for free on IMDB, via Hulu. The episodes are out of order, though, so you might want to refer to the Firefly wiki's episode list rather than IMDB or TV.com, both of which list the massively incorrect original airing … [Read more...] about Firefly streaming free
Is HTML5 Ready Yet?
Is HTML5 Ready Yet? (Context.) … [Read more...] about Is HTML5 Ready Yet?
Keyboard navigation, Firefox, and Macs (including how to tab through drop-down boxes in forms)
ETA: Hate the fact that you can't tab to drop-down boxes in forms in Firefox? This solves the problem! I used to be able to test my sites' keyboard navigation just by tabbing around a page in my browser. And then I couldn't. And now I can again. Lemme 'splain. Testing keyboard … [Read more...] about Keyboard navigation, Firefox, and Macs (including how to tab through drop-down boxes in forms)
My Gal
My Gal — "I hate à … [Read more...] about My Gal
Publisher score card
Publisher score card — a handy run-down of the major publishers and their various imprints. … [Read more...] about Publisher score card
Bye, Ike.
Well, that was dizzyingly anticlimactic. We did get a lot of wind and rain, enough to blow down tree branches and fences all over the neighborhood, though none of ours. We never even lost power, and have been comfortably holed up doing homework (him), cooking (me), watching CNN … [Read more...] about Bye, Ike.
