Can't think why the reaction to Scott McClellan's new book put me in mind of this.
The best live band in rock played its greatest concert ever on June 17th,2006, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. "The performances are brilliant,"says Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, "because they are so relaxed." AtBonnaroo, Greenwood, singer Thom Yorke, drummer Phil Selway, and guitarists EdO'Brien and Colin's brother Jonny covered every extreme in their studio catalog,from the violent double-guitar clang of 1995's The Bends to the hauntedelectronics of 2000's Kid A. But it was in the fresh, unfinished songs, latercut for 2007's In Rainbows, that Radiohead peaked that night. "In 'House ofCards,'" Colin says, "50,000 people threw their glow sticks in the air to thiskick-drum beat and Thom's keening voice. In the film [of the concert], it lookslike Thom walked into a party where he feels instantly at home." Some new songssounded flat at that show, Colin admits. "But isn't that what people want to see — thenext part of the story? They don't want some prepackaged supper-club band."
I can say that if you liked the other Indiana Jones movies, you will like this one, and that if you did not, there is no talking to you.Fuck the haters, it's solid.
10. Souped-up Add-ons managerRead the remaining five reasons here.
A big part of what makes Firefox so special to power users is its extensibility with extensions, add-ons, plug-ins and themes, and Firefox 3's Add-ons dialog got the attention it deserved. The Fox's Add-Ons menu is more robust and intuitive on at least two fronts. You can search and install extensions and themes right from the pop-up box, no browsing required. Also, a new plug-in manager lets you enable and disable third-party helpers like Flash, QuickTime, and anything else that makes content work (and causes you grief).
9. More intuitive interface overall
Mozilla tweaked and updated a whole lot of little things here and there throughout Firefox 3, which amounts to a big overall boost in usability. Most noticeably when you first switch, the Back button only appears on the address bar if there is a page to go back to, and when it does, it's bigger and easier to click. Users who want to make sites with small text more readable permanently are in luck; Firefox 3 can increase the size of images and text, or just the text, on hard-to-read sites. In addition, Firefox 3 applies favicons more consistently to bookmarks, you can click a site's favicon to get extended site identification information, you can resize the search box to hold more than two words, and the find-on-page search box automatically grabs the currently selected word, just to name a few new UI improvements.In the long term, once webapps catch up, Firefox 3 will let you do really neat stuff in your browser, like register your favorite webapps to open certain file types, and access your online data even when you're not connected to the 'net. To get a taste, see how you can configure Firefox 3 to launch Gmail for mailto links.
8. Stronger phishing and malware protection
Firefox 3 has stronger filters and protection against malware, phishing sites, cookies, and other tools that compromise privacy and security. A malware warning shows up when you visit sites known to install malicious software, Firefox 3 doesn't show the content of knock-off sites (like PayPal "Update Your Account" phishing scams) by default, and Firefox 3 checks against Google's ever-growing blacklist of phishing sites. Now you can feel even better switching your less tech-aware relatives over to the open-source browser.
7. Improved download manager
Never wonder where a download came from, or went to, again. Gran Paradiso's download manager lets you search through recent files, resume big downloads after a crash or restart, and lets you keep an eye on your transfers in the status bar.
6. Native looks for every system
Your browser is a serious part of your computer time, so having it look like nothing else on your system can be seriously annoying. Firefox's designers made system integration a priority with this release, and it shows—even Windows XP's and Vista's button layouts have subtle differences in color and shading. There's differences at deeper levels, too, with Cover Flow-type styling in the add-ons manager for OS X, transparencies in key places in Vista and OS X, and other tweaks that make your browser feel like a natural extension of your system.
From Wired:
Jacob Youphes, a Latvian immigrant who changed his name to Jacob Davis after coming to the United States in 1854, was working as a tailor in Reno, Nevada, when he hit on the idea of using copper rivets to reinforce denim working pants. Since he obtained his denim from Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco, Davis approached Strauss with an offer to file for a joint patent.
Strauss -- knowing a good thing when he saw it -- accepted, and the modern "blue jean" was born.
135 years young today. Come on , you didn't think I'd just post a picture of jeans, did you?
