Missing Glass Door Prank
I received an email from a good friend of mine this evening with the following:
Remove the glass from the doors of a busy mall and what do you get? A hilarious prank! Watch as these poor people go to push a door open only to get a handful of air and a face full of awkward. This is such a simple prank to pull off and you get a great reaction.
Here is a link to the video. Windows Media Player is required. Enjoy!
Firefox Extentions
I’ve been using Mozilla’s Firefox browser for close to a year since the early beta versions. One of the things I really love about Firefox is the ability to add extentions which help enhance browser performance… uh, that sounds like some of the spam I receive… tee hee, enhancing performance.
Anyway, back on topic… I really like Firefox Extentions and I’m going to share a few of the ones I really like and use daily.
HTML Validator (based on Tidy): HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.
Web Developer extension: The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
IE View: IE View is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. I use Firefox 99.99% of the time, but there are those moments, particularly when testing new pages, or when viewing that rare IE-only page that’s actually interesting, when I need to see what things look like in IE.
ColorZilla: With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes.
So there you go, just a few of the Firefox extentions I use during my work day. There are others but I’ll save them for another post 
Technology 411
I get lots of comments and questions asking me where do I go online for good Technical News information? My site of course!
Actually there are many good online sources I check out on a daily basis which I reference to on my site.
A couple of my favorites are TechWeb and ZDNet.
I’m now starting to add links to the full stories I reference on my site for your reading enjoyment.
and now… off to have some lunch.
Word of the Day
Superfluous: More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive.
NASA Resurrects Dawn Mission
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday resurrected an ambitious plan to reinstate the Dawn mission, a robotic exploration of two asteroids.
Earlier this month NASA scrapped the $446 million Dawn mission to orbit Ceres and Vesta, two of the largest asteroids orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, nearly six months after it was put on hold because of cost overruns and technical problems.
Source: TechWeb News
Don’t Celebrate Yet, Google
Google scored a partial victory in its battle to keep its search data out of the hands of the government. Yet that could prove to be just one win in a long-running war.U.S. District Judge James Ware this month ruled that Google must turn over 50,000 URLs from its index to the Department of Justice, but not customers’ search queries as requested by the department. The government hopes to use Google’s data to prove that Internet filters aren’t enough to shield minors from adult material online as part of its case to reinstate the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, which the courts blocked when the ACLU and other groups challenged the law’s constitutionality.
Source: InformationWeek