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I remembered reading an article on ifacethoughts a few months ago about keyboard shortcuts in web browsers. One or two of them stuck, and I keep wishing that more had. I really like using scroll click (press down on the scroll button of your mouse to click) to open links in a new [...]

Cedar Point is offering admission tickets for $25 online (normally $43) if you buy 4 or more. If you’ve never been to Cedar Point, all I can say is that you’re missing out on the best rides in the world. Period. They have three out of the top ten steel roller coasters [...]

Good quote by my classmate Peter over at Medical Pastiche:
“You should also know that these “general practice” physicians are very humble, and are not quick to admit that their career as a suburban-adult ambulatory general practice internal medicine physician really is a sub-sub-specialty.” -Stuff Doctors Like: Sub-sub-specialties

I just checked IMDB to see how The Dark Knight fared. I was surprised to see it has quickly overtaken the longstanding The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption as #1 in their Top 250 movies of all-time. I haven’t seen it yet, but Sadie and I are planning to go this weekend.

Big Buck Bunny (code named Project Peach), the second short open source movie to come from the Blender Foundation, was released online on May 30, 2008. I can still remember hearing about Elephant’s Dream (code named Project Orange) back when it became the first open movie ever released.
Open movies are made with free software. [...]

Until recently, I didn’t toy much with the default “look” of Ubuntu. I changed my wallpaper and that was about it. But one of the great things about Linux is how customizable it is. I hadn’t toyed around much with Screenlets or Avant Window Navigator, despite having both of them installed. [...]

I know I’m a bit late on this bandwagon. I don’t normally have too many Firefox extensions installed, but I’ve been playing around with a few lately. I’ve discovered AdBlock Plus. If you’re a Firefox user and you don’t use this extension, you should. If you’re not a Firefox user, you [...]

WordPress 2.6 came out yesterday (ahead of schedule). It’s got a few nice new features to it, but not nearly as many changes as was found in 2.5. It was certainly more of a fit-and-finish release, but it looks like (as usual) they did their homework and fixed some good stuff. One [...]

Ubuntu is now being sold at Best Buy (both in-store and online) for $20, which includes 60 days of installation and setup support from ValuSoft. Someone noticed this a few days ago and posted it on /. but now Ars is giving us the full scoop on this great idea from Canonical and ValuSoft.

I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I credit Sadie for recommending this really great book. Or maybe I should just credit Oprah ( ). The Road tells the story of an unnamed man and his son who are traveling across a post-apocalyptic America. The entire world appears [...]