Comic – Cheshire Crossing
The adventures of Alice, Wendy and Dorothy continue in Cheshire Crossing. But, er, not like in Lost Girls. There’s no such thing as too many comics remixing beloved Victorian fictional characters, as far as I’m concerned.
It comes in issues, and two are up so far.
Bookmarklets
If you don’t know what bookmarklets are, go here (I recommend Zap, Frmget (an excellent tool for creating other bookmarklets and Galeon smart bookmarks), Show Blocks, and the ones for incrementing and decrementing numbers in the url). They’re very useful. To some extent they have been superceded by Greasemonkey in Firefox, but if you don’t use Firefox (I prefer Galeon) they’re still the best way you can make other people’s messed-up pages more readable, and do other funky things.
Here are some I’ve made or modified:
- Wayback Machine — look up the current page in the Wayback Machine. Opens in the same tab / window. Handy for pages which used to be there and aren’t anymore.
- Scale — this is based on a bookmarklet for growing all the elements on a page, but it prompts you for a scaling factor, which can be greater than or smaller than 1. Handy for viewing pages with a fixed layout designed by asshats with huge monitors, when your monitor is not so huge (surfing the web with a 15-inch monitor leads to sideways scrolling… sideways scrolling leads to anger… ).
Deh4xX0r3d
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This site uses dynamic DNS to get around my lack of static IP, and it’s proxied by a machine which is wont to freeze or reset itself at random intervals, so if you occasionally find that this site isn’t there, don’t panic and try again later. It’s just like that good old university internet access. Plans are underway to make my machine wear the proxy pants, but I don’t know when we’ll have time for that.
Buy someone a cow
Recent Tweets
- @firstfallen I like option 4 too. Option two is also nice, but kind of busy.
- Twitter, you are making me sad in my pants. Fix your damn RSS feeds or stop linking to them. http://tinyurl.com/2apmyjv
- @AnnaMalczyk It wasn't hard -- wasn't actually using it for anything. Stupid LJ crossposting feature was final straw. Do not want! D:
- Or not so much. Now exploring these possibilities: http://tinyurl.com/382w9kg
- http://topsy.com FTW; actually seems to have access to full Twitter history.
- @TheRiver I'm following these instructions; don't know how "complete" this is: http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
- I just nuked my Facebook account. When the boat anchor starts biting your ankles, it's time to let go.
- @firstfallen I don't think you're being oversensitive. Waiting would have cost little and been worth a lot. They chose to be dicks about it.
- @firstfallen They all deserve to be summoned to a compulsory team-building workshop on Christmas Eve. :P
- I think encasing the whole block in this tree would make the street look much better. Cut window and door holes. http://tinyurl.com/2vjhg3m
