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Linkspam for 23-8-2008
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How weird is this? If you think you live a healthy lifestyle, your body responds as if you do, but if you think you don';t, it degrades, EVEN IF YOU ACTUALLY DO. Mind over matter. Gotta love Dr Ben
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The politics of bisexuality, an older post from Laurie that I had saved to link to but never actually did
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Turning off that annoying nag when there's a reboot due. FFS, if I could reboot now I would, piss off and let me do it when I want.
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Short answer: real people don't use the Address Bar. They just google. Even if what they're looking for is, well, Google. Maybe Firefox and the uber-bar will help change that? Maybe? Please?
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The clitoris, a users guide. MY careful empirical research has me convinced that some are more sensitive than others...
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Exactly what it says on the tin. Yes, having a 5 year old is a good excuse to spend time in the lego section looking at the prices in horror...
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I'm thinking someone at the Guardian/Observer is poly, they seem to run a fair few articles like this, softening things up a bit. Regardless, I approve.
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Tim on the Rowntree report, approvingly. I think I concur, poverty can't just be based on the old 'dollar a day' measure, even Adam Smith would've disputed that. But then that old lefty has frequently been misinterpreted by fools.
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Free short story from Scalzi on Tor's new super SF siteâ”still haven't found the time to read it but still, worth linking to.
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Unexpected results from the Hadron collider. I giggled
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I only Google for stuff I don't know how to find already. My nice little row of shortcut/quick links/whatever you want to call them works quite nicely, as do the address bar and a bookmark file. *worries about people who can't use a bookmark file*
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It's remarkably common—people who either don't know how or don't bother at all. Given the number of different places I trawl to regularly I couldn't manage without it.
But yeah, Fx (correct abbreviation) isn't the only alternative, I've tried and like Opera, and always tell people if you want a good browser and don't want/need plugins, Opera is better, but it's nowhere near as extensible (this post was made using an Fx plugin, for example).
But the new addressbar behaviour in Fx3 makes using both a lot easier and much more useful, given 30% of browsing is now Fx, that might mean that the addressbar becomes more commonly used.
But that there is now a large variety of browsers available is good for all, including IE users—IE7&8 are both much better because of the competition, which is good.
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Because it's incredibly customisable, and I can (easily) make it do lots of useful things that I can't (easily) make other browsers do.