Q Daily Newsrandom ramblings from a geek doctorFirefox 3, notsomuch the panacea- (Found July 5, 2008 ) I'm overall pretty happy about the release of Firefox 3, but am I the only one who's seeing sporadic issues on Macs On my iMac (2.1 GHz PowerPC G5), it's painfully slow, so slow that I've started using Safari as...http://q.queso.com/archives/002293 SuperDuper for Leopard is alive!- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Hallelujah, the SuperDuper update to bring Leopard compatibility is now out! (For those who don't know what the hell I'm talking about, or who might know and don't use it, SuperDuper is by far the best backup app for Macs....http://q.queso.com/archives/002280 Chesapeake Primary ahoy!- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Tomorrow's Chesapeake Primary day, the day when DC, Virginia, and Maryland voters turn out to help choose the next Presidential candidates -- and with the tight race on the Democratic Party side, the primaries really matter quite a bit. Here...http://q.queso.com/archives/002281 Donating to the Jimmy Fund to help cleanse the Pats' karma- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Bill Simmons, ESPN's Sports Guy and possibly the biggest Boston sports homer in the world, found himself at this year's Super Bowl without his lucky Wes Welker jersey. He grabbed a Randy Moss jersey from the vendors inside the stadium,...http://q.queso.com/archives/002282 Improving the classroom learning experience- (Found July 5, 2008 ) I gotta say, this idea -- a professor intentionally introducing a single falsehood into each of his lectures, challenging the class to find it and expose it -- is pretty great for a slew of reasons. Given a sufficiently dedicated...http://q.queso.com/archives/002283 Meet the new Attorney General, same as the old Attorney General- (Found July 5, 2008 ) On one hand, we have Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton, one the one-time lawyer for the President of the United States and the other the former White House Chief of Staff. Both of them were allegedly involved in the White...http://q.queso.com/archives/002284 Welcome to the cheesiest of cheeses!- (Found July 5, 2008 ) So the more astute of you have noticed that things around here quieted down a lot over the past nine or ten months, and those of you who click through the links know why... so I guess it's time to...http://q.queso.com/archives/002285 Those Flickr pictures... they move!- (Found July 5, 2008 ) I am incredibly excited about the launch of Flickr's new video uploading abilities -- what a welcome addition to an already-awesome online service! (I also love Heather Champ's silly little intro video to the service... nice work, that.) With the...http://q.queso.com/archives/002286 Oh, and about Gandhi's cannibalism, as well...- (Found July 5, 2008 ) This might be my favorite news article correction ever, from my old school paper, the Columbia Spectator: CORRECTION: This submission misstates that one Dalai Lama admitted to having sex with hundreds of men and women while knowing that he had...http://q.queso.com/archives/002287 Top 1 reason this Wired author is a douchewaffle- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Anytime an article contains the phrase "These are sweeping generalizations that are intended to provoke a heated debate, so try not to get too offended", you can be sure that it's a total piece of crap penned by an intellectually-dishonest...http://q.queso.com/archives/002288 |