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Homeopathic ER

Not for those into naturopathy without a sense of humor.... Homeopathic A&E.

Video For Everybody Demo

Fozbaca tweeted about Video for Everybody, a very cool system for embedding video on web pages. It uses a cool system of fallbacks from the HTML5 <video> to flash to quicktime and so on, all without Javascript. It claims to work in pretty much every situation in every OS, even iPhone. Sadly, the iPhone version for me just shows the 'there is a movie here but we won't let you view it' broken icon. Still, very cool.

Happy 4th Of July!

Just a quick note to say a happy 4th of July to my friends and readers in the good 'ol USA!

New Mail Client - Postbox

Appstorm has some details and screenshots of Postbox, The New Mail Client on the Block. While it looks like it is a solid mail client (and it'd have to be to fight Mail.app, Outlook, Thunderbird and friends) it seems to have some of the "social" stuff built in as well. Appstorm has a nice writeup though, so just hit the link.

The Most Inventive Thing You'll See This Week

Aryk pointed me to this one on shipment of fail: Suggest a caption as I’m speechless. I LOL'd. I'm speechless too.

Better Evernote Web Clipping Bookmarklet

I do like EverNote as I've mentioned before, now someone has modified the evernote web clipping bookmarklet so it works with the Readability bookmarklet I previously mentioned to create a Bookmarklet to reformat text for reading and Clipping.

More Sony Walkman Stuff

After the cool Giving up my iPod for a Walkman that was passed around a bunch in the last couple of days, Forever Geek has posted a bunch of other cool walkman photos of hacks, sculptures, old ads, etc.

Flickr 2 Twitter Beta

Check out the Flickr Twitter Beta which lets you twitter images from flickr pages, or send them to twitter by email.

Facebook Penguin Robot

I found what I want for my birthday this year... the Cute penguin robot has motion sensors and can connect up to facebook for various interesting things. How cool! Thanks Cali over at Geekbrief.tv.

Multi-Touch Tab Switching In Firefox

Holy crap this is the coolest thing ever!!! If you have a moderately recent macbook or other laptop with a multi-touch trackpad you can set up multi-touch tab switching in Firefox! Basically you can set it so that if you twist two fingers on the trackpad it'll switch tabs left and right. Awesome!

Virtual Box 3.0 Released

A major upgrade for virtualization software Virtual box has been released. More changes than I'd list here, hit the link for all the details.

Know Whose House You're B&Eing

OK, this just made me giggle. Short story, 23 year old got drunk, had a knife, figured it'd be a good idea to break into a house and threaten the owner. Turns out the owner was 72. Oh, and a former boxer. The pictures tell the story of what happened. Damn kids get off my lawn!

Firefox 3.5 Released

Yay! 3.5 is out officially. Hit the Mozilla Download links to get the latest firefox, including, but not limited to:

Uber-fast new javascript engine for your gmail, google reader, and other javascript powered apps
New awesomebar functionality, including ability to filter by bookmarks only, domain only, and so on
~~Private browsing~~ Porn mode. Lets be honest, this isn't for hiding you buying a new ring for your wife, this is for hiding you surfing for nazi lesbian midget porn from your wife
Re-opening of closed windows as well as tabs
New icon!
...and much more.

Pirate Bay Sold To Global Gaming Factory

Via TorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company. Hoax? Brilliant business move? Great way to avoid prosecution? Bad news used for a pump and dump stock scheme?

Guess we'll see what happens....

As TPB blog confirms the sale, guess it's not a hoax. Sadly it really seems like they just sold out, though right in the blog post they say that if they mess with the site no one will keep using it. Just like suprnova of ages ago (anyone remember that one) maybe the age of The Pirate Bay will pass and a new main site will appear.

Needless to say, the comments on the blog entry are fairly, shall we say, "unsupportive" of the decision :)

What's Happening in Firefox 3.6?

With Firefox 3.5 just around the corner, Mashable has a Sneak Peek of What's On Tap for Firefox in 2010. The high points? Ubiquity built into the awesomebar, actual perceivable performance boosts, web application boosts, and more. Course, we'll never see these until things actually appear in 2010 or so ;)