today is caps lock day. one of the few things i hate more than caps lock day is when someone puts up signs around the office claiming it’s caps lock day in comic fucking sans ms. so i whipped up a quick easter-egg. include the following code somewhere in your javascript files and enjoy the… Read more »
Posts Categorized: I’m a geek
Exposing YouTube’s Shortlink with Greasemonkey
Last week, I was surprised to find that YouTube does not promote its youtu.be shortlinks prominently on the video pages. Sure, it’s trivial enough to transform the regular url (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ujmb3jQAJE) into its shorter counterpart (http://youtu.be/7Ujmb3jQAJE), but let’s face it, we’re all a bunch of lazy sobs. To cut a long story short, I pieced together… Read more »
Wallpaper
Today Google added a background image to their search page. And since a lot of people really seem to dislike things that change, a lot of people started to complain about this new ‘wallpaper’ feature. All of a sudden, Google isn’t white enough, looks too much like Bing, loads too slow, and blah blah blah…. Read more »
Let It Be
There was a question in my mailbox about the where and when of Meat Loaf’s cover of “Let It Be.” According to the liner notes of the “Not a Dry Eye in the House” single, it was recorded for ABC’s Nightline. But as anyone who knows how to string a few keywords together would have… Read more »
Thoughts on Open
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, just issued some thoughts on Flash, detailing why Apple won’t support it on their iPhones and -Pads. They’ll probably have some valid points there, but as I don’t own or plan to own any of those products, I don’t really care. Still, there’s one bone I have to pick with… Read more »