Month: January 2007

IE web rewriting

Greasemonkey for IE. What’s the deal nowadays? At one time I heard about Trixie but not so much lately. I’ll revisit it myself, but I’m curious to hear reports on Trixie’s compatibility with Greasemonkey userscripts, its rate of adoption, and its security model.

an update on the greasemonkey / bookmarklet situation on IE

Pointless Satellite censorship

I’ve been told off (politely) via email for showing terrorist readers of Ogle Earth how to get to the imagery that used to be in Google Earth by publicizing the Google Maps API tile comparison tool in my previous post. The argument was that these things may be easy for me, but not for the average Iraqi, and that what I did was akin to posting information on how to pick locks. I only partly agree. I think my previous post was more like pointing out that there is no door to lock. 10 minutes ago I gave myself the task of getting hold of recent imagery of Basra without access to Google Earth or the Google Maps API. I got what I was looking for on the first try. Tell me if what I just did is not accessible to anyone with dial-up internet, a point to prove, and a positive IQ.

debunking the ‘OMG terrorists’ nonsense

Colbert/O’Reilly Surrealism

This back-to-back interviewing on Thursday night of Stephen Colbert (who plays a kinda Bill O’Reilly) by Bill O’Reilly on his show, followed by Bill O’Reilly (who is really Bill O’Reilly) being interviewed by Stephen Colbert on his show, is truly an Escher-ian moment in navel-gazing, postmodern media surrealism.

Adults are the new kids

3 experiences this morning:

Grocery store. (apparently) Single adult buying: Sprite, oreos, white bread, Jif, Welch’s, Fritos. Grabbed a $6 chocolate bar at the register.

Hardware store. 50 year old man doing card tricks for the clerk.

In the street: 10s of cars all costing more than $65K.

They’re kids. But with (even more) money.

this is not surprising at all