cellio | short takes (mostly links)

Wow. This picture of the Eagle Nebula is gorgeous.

More information on the police attack on peaceful protesters in Oregon (link from dglenn). I wonder if the owners of that site could be convinced to provide an RSS feed for their "new McCarthyism" reports.

Marry an American is a web site aimed at Canadians who'd like to rescue folks from a second Bush term if it occurs. "We envision a movement where everyone wins: Freedom of expression and a politically convenient marriage with love and igloos for all." (Link from ladymondegreen.)

Top ten ways the Iraq war is not like World War II.

Someone was selling, on eBay, invitations to a wedding he didn't want to go to. The running commentary is kind of funny. Thanks to patrissimo for the link.

Gee, Enterprise did not actually hit the reset button that I thought they would. I'm impressed. (Spoiler alert:) The seven million people killed in the first Xindi attack are still dead after all the mucking with the timeline.

Speaking of Enterprise (sort of)... Having finally had a successful encounter with the insurance company of the person who hit my car last month, I took my car in to be repaired today. It takes two days to do paint, so I have a rental. It'a s Dodge Neon -- much better than the last rental car I had in most ways. I was surprised, on climbing into it, how low to the ground it is; I hadn't realized that my Golf is so much higher. (I think the Neon is comparable to my old Mazda in that respect. How quickly we acclimate to new cars. :-) ) And in the small-worlds department, the person at Enterprise who handled my rental goes to my synagogue. He recognized me first.

Last week one of my coworkers showed me that Firefox has a mouse gesture for "magnify". This does text and images, and you don't have to go to the menus to tweak settings. It also overrides hard-coded fonts, because it's magnifying the whole window. So I downloaded Firefox, but there was no magnification joy to be had. I checked the list of extensions they offer, and I didn't find it there (though I did find, separately, text zoom and image zoom). Someone else told me this works for him with the scroll wheel on his mouse, which I don't have. I couldn't find an answer via Google. My current theory is that on the original coworker's laptop, diagonal click-drag simulates a scroll wheel. Bummer. (So I've gone back to Mozilla 1.7, because on first glance I don't like the Firefox UI as much.)

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I'm still using version 0.7 of Firebird and presumably an equally old version of the optimoz mouse gestures. Accidental diagonal-down-right gestures cause unintentional magnification unjoy all the time. I am fairly certain that is behavior is not tied to the scroll wheel, since my touchpad has another method for emulating one. Also, the status bar recorded the gesture as consisting of a single down-right stroke.

Anyway, I would have thought that these mouse gestures would be supported by Mozilla, too.

I'm using 0.9 under XP, and can zoom in and out using the mouse wheel and the ctrl key at the same time (mouse wheel by itself just scrolls up and down like you'd expect.)

"Help" claims that ctrl-plus and ctrl-minus will increase and shrink respectively; the latter works for me, but I needed to use ctrl-equals to zoom back in again.

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