Bookmarks for April 2, 2019
- A Few Simple Steps to Vastly Increase Your Privacy Online
This is a really good guide – there are a few things in here I didn't know about, and will start doing.
Tag: firefox
Bookmarks for October 28, 2010
- HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Here's a plugin you can install and use that will protect you from Firesheep on a lot of sites that support it. Not all, by any means, so don't go assuming you're secure, just because you're running it, but it should keep you safe on many popular sites.
- Exposing Nadine Dorries and the little gang of Conservatives who cried ‘stalker’ | Bloggerheads
3 Conservative MPs, one of the them a cabinet member, have repeatedly smeared and harassed a journalist who had the temerity to question some of the lies they told in public. (I should perhaps say that I don't believe that Labour MPs are automatically above this kind of behaviour, either, merely that I haven't read anything about it lately. That doesn't make it acceptable that the Conservatives do it.)
- Subtraction.com: My iPad Magazine Stand
Some good, thoughtful writing on the current crop of magazines-for-ipad, and the failings in the software used to produce and consume them.
Bookmarks for June 25, 2008
- Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile
First they came for the omnibologists…
This simultaneously winds me up something rotten, and makes me laugh – the incongruity of the headline, and the word “omnibologist”. Say it with me now… - YouTube – Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1
Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.
- TidBITS Safe Computing: How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans
Yes, apparently there’s a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs of instruction on how to make your Mac immune to it, until it’s patched. Ever seen something like that for a Windows exploit? No, me neither.
- firefox-mac-pdf – Google Code
Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!
Bookmarks for April 22, 2008
- Improving the internet | The web: some antics | Economist.com
I was unfair yesterday – turns out the Economist has been talking about the semantic web for longer that I thought. There is another article from 2006 as well, but I can’t link to it because it’s behind a paywall. But still, hooray for the Economist.
- Ideas For Dozens: Automating Firefox for Web Application Integration
Potentially security-hole-tastic, but also amazing for site admin systems and the like, it’s now possible to install an extension that allows a site to telnet into your copy of Firefox, and do various things to add a whole new layer to what a site can do.
- BBC iPlayer – Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press
Just a note to myself – missed this when it was on. I note the BBC still haven’t fixed the iplayer on OSX – because it’s flash based, it does not stop my screen from going dark through lack of mouse movement, like a proper media player does. Grr.