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Memestreams supports Firefox/IE's Search bar |
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| Topic: MemeStreams |
10:21 am EST, Jan 3, 2008 |
More on the recent search update from the man who implemented it.. Tom posted some quick enhancements I made to Memestreams today. If you are running IE 7 or Firefox 2+ you you might notice your search bar is glowing while browsing Memestreams. You can install MemeStreams as a search provider with one click now in both those browsers as shown below:
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Internet Explorer
Of course, those of you who regularly search MemeStreams may have a complaint or two about the performance. We're fixing that soon. Its entirely a disk I/O problem and we'll be buying a new server with better storage performance when the new machine comes online in February.
Memestreams supports Firefox/IE's Search bar |
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MemeStreams Update: Acidus Badassness |
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| Topic: MemeStreams |
8:14 am EST, Jan 3, 2008 |
I've posted two updates to the site tonight that Acidus wrote a few weeks ago. I'm sorry they didn't make it out sooner but I've been busy with the Christmas holidays and the like. The first is an updated set of MemeStreams Bookmarklets. You do not have to upgrade to these if you don't want to, but good testers who report problems are always valuable to us. They should work a bit better than the old ones, particularly when selecting text on a page with a bunch of iframes, and we're now back to one peice of cross browser javascript code, which is nice. The second is that if you're running IE or Safari you might notice your search bar is glowing. You can install MemeStreams as a search provider with one click now in both those browsers. Of course, those of you who regularly search MemeStreams may have a complaint or two about the performance. We're fixing that soon. Its entirely a disk I/O problem and we'll be buying a new server with better storage performance in a few weeks. Unfortunately I am going out of the country for two weeks so I won't be able to get that done until I return, but the new machine should be online sometime in February. Thanks Acidus for the nice bits of code!
Yeah! Thanks Billy! MemeStreams Update: Acidus Badassness |
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MemeStreams Update: Date Display Fix |
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| Topic: MemeStreams |
7:56 pm EST, Jan 1, 2008 |
In some circumstance, dates were being broken into multiple lines when viewed with Safari. This problem has been fixed. |
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| Topic: Holidays |
5:45 pm EST, Dec 31, 2007 |
2008, here we come! |
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THREAT LEVEL's Year in Review -- 2007 | Virgil is still cooler than any of us... |
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| Topic: Cyber-Culture |
6:31 pm EST, Dec 28, 2007 |
It was a year of soul searching at THREAT LEVEL, every day a fresh challenge to our fundamental beliefs and convictions: Alberto Gonzales made us pine for John Ashcroft; Google made us love roving surveillance cams; and Jammie Thomas' internet spoofing defense was enough to make us secretly root for the RIAA. If you missed any of it, not to fear: here's the year-end wrap up that will push your personal threat level to code orange.
One of the things singled out in Threat Level's Year in Review was, as expected, Virgil and his WikiScanner. Readers also carried the water when graduate student Virgil Griffith released WikiScanner, a web tool that mashes up whois IP records with Wikipedia logs to unmask corporations and government agencies making anonymous changes to Wikipedia. Readers found hundreds of self-serving edits and revisionist cuts by the likes of Diebold, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil -- the latter tweaked the entry on the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill to whitewash the effect on Alaskan wildlife.
For many of us, this will also be remembered as the year Virgil set the bar really fucking high for cool. Billy wrote a book which has been released to wide critical acclaim, but Virgil was on the Colbert Report. Elonka hasn't been on the Colbert Report. Mike's shenanigans didn't make the Daily Show. It's going to be hard to top. I think the smart money is on Cyan.. THREAT LEVEL's Year in Review -- 2007 | Virgil is still cooler than any of us... |
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Around the World in a Boat Fueled by Human Fat | Autopia from Wired.com |
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| Topic: Biotechnology |
2:40 am EST, Dec 27, 2007 |
Pete Bethune, a former oil exploration engineer, is so committed to proving biodiesel is a viable alternative to fossil fuel that he and two other Earthrace crew members underwent liposuction. Together they stripped more than 2.5 gallons of fat from their bodies, which produced almost two gallons of fuel - enough to go 9 miles under optimum conditions.
One small step for two men, one giant leap for our future robot masters. We remain blazing toward the advent of robots that can kill people and generate fuel by eating their flesh. Around the World in a Boat Fueled by Human Fat | Autopia from Wired.com |
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| Topic: Media |
8:26 pm EST, Dec 21, 2007 |
1. VIRGINIA TECH KILLINGS
2. MORTGAGE CRISIS
3. IRAQ WAR
4. OIL PRICES
5. CHINESE EXPORTS
6. GLOBAL WARMING
7. BRIDGE COLLAPSE
8. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
9. IMMIGRATION DEBATE
10. IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
AP's Top Ten for 2007 |
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'Daily Show,' 'Colbert Report' returning without writers - CNN.com |
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3:54 pm EST, Dec 21, 2007 |
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on January 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
I'm so glad they are resuming production. It's going to be interesting to see what they are like without the writers... 'Daily Show,' 'Colbert Report' returning without writers - CNN.com |
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