short takes (mostly links)
Oct. 25th, 2004 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellio
More
information on the police attack on peaceful protesters in Oregon
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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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Date: 2004-10-26 04:12 am (UTC)