Marc's Musings

Links for 29 Dec 2005 [del.icio.us]

• Rapid De-Pressurization and Panic at 30K Feet - And he lives to blog about it.
• Free Wi-Fi in Airports - This is a cool list, but why are there so many airports that don't have wi-fi at all?

Links for 28 Dec 2005 [del.icio.us]

• StaxRip - With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format.

Links for 27 Dec 2005 [del.icio.us]

• A Secret Landscape - The Cold War Infrastructure of the Nation's Capital Region
• Ouch!!!! Hard landings hurt! - One of the major advantages to using Flight Simulator, it doesn't cost anything after making a hard landing.
• Fear destroys what bin Laden could not - How true it is. I don't think even Osama could have predicted this.
• New TSA Guidelines - I love The Onion

Links for 23 Dec 2005 [del.icio.us]

• Cook with a pants hanger - Why didn't I ever think of this

Links for 21 Dec 2005 [del.icio.us]

• flagrantdisregard.com Flickr Toys - Helping you do fun things with your digital camera since 2005.
• Transition of Power - Turn on the wayback machine and look at this transcript of dubyah meeting with congress before he was president. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
• The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power - Bruce Schneier talks about the current politial climate with dubyah. "This is indefinite dictatorial power."

Links for 16 Dec 2005 [del.icio.us]

• Senate Rejects Extension of Patriot Act - Great news!
• Stick Arena - Stick figure FPS in flash

I like my browser the size it is, thankyouverymuch.

I'm am really sick of websites that feel the need to resize my browser window when I load them. I can understand a size on a popup when it is created, but don't resize my window when I load you page from somewhere else.

This is really annoying when browsing with tabs in firefox. You open up a link in a new tab, and firefox opens it up, but doesn't give it focus. Then all of a sudden your browser window is resizing because that new tab wanted to be maximized, or 100000x345345 pixels big, or a small 10x10 square.

As an aside, if you don't use tabbed browsing, I highly recommend it. If you are lucky enough to have a 3 button mouse (most with scroll wheels do), just click on a link with the middle button in firefox.

I wonder if there is a setting in ff to stop that from happening, or at least a greasemonkey script...

Links for 12 Dec 2005 [del.icio.us]

• It's just a goddamned piece of paper - “I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”