ReceptacleJason Carlin on Web design, development, user experience, and other such tomfoolery.Aardvark in Firefox 1.5- November 30, 2005 I recently installed Firefox 1.5 RC3. It's stable as a damn rock and most of my extensions either updated or worked immediately. Most of them. I was very disappointed that Aardvark wasn't working. Firefox 1.5 disabled most incompatible extensions, but left Aardvark in play and in my right-click menu, it just didn't... work anymore. Well, it finally got to be too much to bear. As much as I adore the SlayerOffice MODI2 dom inspector (also availble as part of Steve's outstanding Favelet...http://www.escapist.net/receptacle/archives/2005/11/aardvark_in_fir.php Superchrist- November 18, 2005 "They could be a great people, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason, above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them my only son."- Superman Returns trailer There has been a good amount of concern and criticism about the upcoming adaptation of C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first book in Chronicles of Narnia series, but I'm wondering if christian ideologies might be finding their way into the cinema under...http://www.escapist.net/receptacle/archives/2005/11/superchrist.php Attention as a Commodity- November 9, 2005 On some level, the ultimate promise of the web has always been truly personalizable marketing. The web offered the first portal through which truly unique advertising experiences could be provided to each user, and could be more accurately targeted to that user's interests and habits, hopefully increasing the chances that she will click on the banner or add to her shopping cart. The missing link here is the mechanism by which the advertisers collect information about users to use in tailoring.http://www.escapist.net/receptacle/archives/2005/11/attention_as_a.php |