FIREFOX 3.0

Released: May 16, 2008

This Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only. Nice new features!

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THE SIMPSON'S MOVIE

You can watch "The S*mps*n's M*vie" online and it doesn't cost you anything. Go to this website and scroll half way down and click on the "Play External Video Content" which brings up a new window.

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RELATED:
* Firefox has a theme for The Simpson's Movie.
* The Reality Sandwich has a worth-reading post on "The Simpsons Shamanic Movie" by Morgan Maher.
* The name of this website, "Easy Bake Coven", was taken from a bit on The Simpsons.

Firefox: Supercharge Google Reader In 15 Ways

This first one I tried so far is the Google Reader Preview Enhanced v1.07a

Adds a "Preview button" to Google Reader that allows you to view actual article in a frame. Clicking again on that button goes back to RSS view. Does work both in List view and expanded view.

Other Google Reader hacks: you can also add posts to del.icio.us, share on Facebook, blog a feed entry to your own personal blog...the list goes on and on. Google Reader gets better and better! via

i'm done. i've GOT to get off this computer and get outside!

The Hippie Narrative:
A Literary Perspective On The Counterculture

Mount Vernon’s Scott MacFarlane examines the key works of prose of the hippie movement of the 1960s and early 1970s and how the works are reflective of the counterculture.

He mentions that "Siddhartha," written in 1922, and "Stranger in a Strange Land," published in 1961, were very instrumental because these narratives shaped the formation of a hippie counterculture and were written before the sixties movement.

And he covers Kesey, Brautigan and Wolfe. Nationally influential. link


That leads me to the Foxfire Books, which is one of my favorite books of all time.

Regionally influential in the South were the Foxfire Books. Especially to those of us living on communes and/or outdoors.

Firefox has branched off to teaching and workshops now, but originally it was the communer's bible here in the South, where you could find sections on hog dressing, log cabin building, basket weaving, preserving foods, making butter, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, and moonshining, which we left to the pros. We made blackberry wine.


Read FOXFIRE Series 1 - 6 (PDF)
**UPDATED: JUNE 22, 2007 - Caution: Not all of these are working links, but these are the only online FOXFIRE books I could find and for the links that ARE working you will almost certainly be able to get a feel for what the FOXFIRE series were about. Thanks. --Editor

BuzzFlash: Why do you think the rebuilding effort and relief effort in New Orleans has just come to a complete halt?

Greg Palast: It's not stalled. This is the plan. This is another White House gimmick to hide their evil intent in the clothing of incompetence.



The same with Iraq -- oh, we screwed up? We didn't get all the cheap oil that Wolfowitz promised in his congressional testimony, when he said the price of oil would decline. Well, it's gone up. Golly gee, who funds the Bush Administration but the oil companies and Saudi Arabia? Who profits when the price of oil goes up? That's "Mission Accomplished."



Look to New Orleans. Golly gee, the black folks haven't come back. There are no labor unions anymore in New Orleans. There are no public schools. It's all vouchers. Worker wages have gone down. It's "Mission Accomplished." This is the plan. This is the program.



The idea that this is just a screw-up, or a delay, or a stall is wrong. This is the plan. You're seeing it in effect. They don't ever want those people back. You still have 73,000 POWs - prisoners of "W."

What makes Palast a good investigative reporter is that he does his homework and not only tells us the real story sans agenda, but always finds a way to get his voice heard. Sure is a tenacious little fucker.

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W E B T R A I L

* See The Night Sky @ SkyTonight.com. Have you seen the moon lately? Wow!

* Dec 5, Tuesday in Celestial Timings: The still nearly full Lunar Standstill Moon is crossing the center point of the Galactic Edge as it moves into Cancer. This is what is referred to as the ?out of bounds? Moon and it is transmitting energies from beyond our galactic realm. This suggests we are receiving a whole new download of inter-galactic information and vibrational frequency that is beyond the bounds of our ordinary reality. Greater ease in assimilating these energies occurs when we consciously engage our thoughts and actions releasing attachment to results and limiting beliefs about who we are. See more on the Galactic Edge and the Lunar Standstill at Shamanic Astrology.

* A Stunning New Look At Déjà Vu at Science Daily describes an ongoing thesis that involves in part a study on a blind person. Fascinating read.

* I keep reading glowing reviews about The Fountain. Angela-Eloise has discovered the same thing. Sounds pretty good.

* More on Firefox Tweaks here. See Screenshot Firefox Extensions

* Whole Lotta CDs - Robert Plant's new 9-cd package. If you liked "Kashmir", and I happen to think it's his strong suit, this is for you.

* Today in Peace & Justice History, December 5:
1000 antiwar protestors try to close NYC induction center; 585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock. (1967)

* Greatest Hits - Satirical Living Will

Yahoo! Food is a new section on Yahoo.com. They seem to really be spiffing up the joint lately. via: sugarfused

Technorati Tags: food, holidays

A little posting with Firefox's Performancing feature, but I'm still having some trouble getting it set up correctly.

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50 Best Firefox Extensions
I've seen several lists compiled of the best Firefox extensions, but this one appears to be more credible than those that have been around lately. Includes many new ones.

These lists are so sought-after because of the abundance of Firefox extensions which take forever to get through on their site. I'm always up for a good extension.

* TEST POST - With my post on Stonehenge below, I'm trying out the new tool for Firefox called Performancing which I found on Bloglines popular links.  It's a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8,  right-click, or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.

Currently my feed won't publish, but this extension has possibilities.

* Tom Goskar of Past Thinking was at Stonehenge for the solstice and has posted an album of photos on his Flickr account.

Winter Solstice at Stonehenge - a photoset on Flickr

RE-BLOGGING

The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's an international grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Since I first posted about it, many other communities have opened up their own Freecycle groups. Put in your zipcode and check it out.. Best thing I've freecycled or bartered lately? The car I'm driving was bartered for my husband building someone a deck.

Locally, Hendersonville and Ashevilleboth have busy groups.

* Bandnews.org - Live from the Web | Search & Read official Music News - Band Directory - Archive. "Bandnews.org is a search engine keeping track of what is going on in the band scene. A bot collects the news from official band websites and magazines so you can read them on one page." [via: DJ Martian]

Professors publish case study of successful nutritional treatment for cancer. Link [via: Rutabaga Stew]

November 15, 1969. 250,000 War Protesters Stage a Peaceful March and Rally in Heart of Washington. - Link [via: One Thousand Reasons]

AOL has a new stand alone browser. They took some ideas from Firefox, like tabbed browsing, and there's some nice, new features of their own. Check it out @ AOL Explorer. For Windows, Mac, and Linux. 10 minutes download for modems; 1 minute for DSL, Cable.

Now Playing - Incredible String Band - The Sun In Pale Silence

Random-ness

* Full Moon in Taurus on Tuesday
On Tuesday, Nov 15th, the full moon takes place in the sign of Taurus at 7:57pm EST. With all the astrological tensions happening right now, even some of the astrologers are suggesting to 'take up knitting, and just ride it out..." Link

* So long Sitemeter? Google launches Analytics so I'm test driving it.

* I read on an old post of mine from 2003 that we were paying an average of $1.65 a gallon for regular gas here in North Carolina. I remember thinking it was way too high at that time and we're happy and complacent with $2.00 per now.

* Napalm In Iraq? That's old news, kiddies. US admited napalm use in August 11, 2003. New Report

* Tip For Today: Hold down the CTRL key and the mouse wheel will zoom text size in Internet Explorer most of the time; and in Mozilla ALL of the time.

* I've finally dumped AOL. I decided to use them as my ISP at home for my daughter who was a young girl at the time and for computer-illiterate Cap'n Cook. Anyway, all this to say to anyone out there who may still have an AOL email address for me, that my main address is the susan AT easybakecoven DOT net now. Get it? Got it? Good.

* Ample Sanity is where you can go to explore daily fresh links and and the web's diverse offerings. As an ex-bartender, I say the site's positively 'top shelf'.

* What about night life in Charlotte, NC? Paid To Party will tell you all about it. She writes for the Charlotte newspaper and keeps an excellent blog where the comments sizzle with plenty of activity.

* Got a website of your own? Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer (each soul you save from IE-hell). Link

Quote For Today
When comes the time to leave this world someday, what you get to keep is what you gave away. You can't take that u-haul to heaven with you, can you?

TOP 3 BAND NAMES OF THE MONTH
Say Hi To Your Mom
So So Many Many White Tigers
Superman's Guest List

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Advanced Searchbar - More features than the Google, Yahoo, and MSN toolbars combined. I'm giving it a test drive on IE and find it's very useful. Doesn't work with Firefox. (seen on Robin's pc )

saturday morning me//
waking to a cool clear morning/
black t-neck/black sweats/houseshoes/
hot vanilla chai/wheat toast-honey/
listening-back of my hand-rolling stones/
and watching local news/
waitng on the caffeine gods/
so how about you?

Delay indicted for money laundering, fluffing and folding.

Web Trails

Aleister Crowley, British occultist born on October 12, 1875. He was an occultist, mystic, sexual revolutionary, and drug addict (especially heroin).

Other interests and accomplishments were wide-ranging (he was a chess master, mountain climber, poet, writer, painter, astrologer and social critic).

We place no reliance
On virgin or pigeon;
Our Method is Science,
Our Aim is Religion.
~Aleister Crowley

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
~Aleister Crowley

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Psychedelic Sunday - Berbati’s Church of Psychedelia is a free event organized by Point Line Plane’s Josh Blanchard. It has been going strong every last Sunday of the month since its inception last January.
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Exciting material relating to rock greats Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones to lead Christie's annual sale of Pop and Rock Memorabilia at Christie's Rockefeller Center, 21 November 2005.
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Psychedelic Books for Independent Minds
Leary Library, Lilly Library, Fringe Series, Entheo-Spirituality, Psychedelic Library and more. Part of The Psychedelic Ring which has 29 sites, which may or not be surf-worthy.
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Faster Firefox - Speed up your Firefox browser by tweaking settings. Installs into Firefox Options if you can’t find it. Anybody tried this yet? Mitch? It's different from the tweaking we did last year on Firefox; it's a download. Thanks, Devon.

Is anyone watching Lost? I'm trying to watch it, especially after I heard someone talking backwards, reminiscent of Twin Peaks, which brilliantly stands alone in tv series innovation. 4 8 15 16 23 42 is keeping the secret.

British Library Online Gallery - Turning The Pages.
Leaf through 14 great books and magnify the details. Very nice. Thanks, Carol.
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I noticed Salon has a new design and read this piece: Thousands of men are shelling out $6,500 for hyper-realistic dolls that answer all their needs -- and don't talk back. Ask Davecat about Sidore. How fucked up ARE these guys anyway? Let me count the ways.
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Go get 'em, BDM. Big Daddy Malcontent takes the banks and christians to task.
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Michael Hussar is a fun and twisted artist I don't get to see enough of. Another image you may recognize here.

Just who landed the dream job that determines that Julian Casablancas' DNA isn't worth as much as Michael Stipe's? Lunch, anyone?

Artist Natalie Dee's review of those ribbons you see displayed on cars.

More Firefox Fun - How about Pimpzilla theme for your Firefox? Subtle, thy name is NOT Pimpzilla.

Know Your Burns
#1 - Burning Man
NC - Transformus
DE - Playa del Fuego
TX - Flipside
AZ - Toast-Town
GA - RipeAtlanta
Canada - Burning Mooseman

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Some brightly colored, fun, Firefox themes came out this week. My favorites are SphereGnome and Scribblies, which I'm currently using. I'm getting such a kick out of the juggler juggling in the top right corner while the page loads. Anybody discovered some good Firefox extensions, themes, or plugins lately?

Today's Quote
We don't want too many citizens asking where the power and the money really goes. Informed by psychedelics, people might stop saluting.
--Terence McKenna

saturday morning me//
styling in overalls/black henley/chucks/
sporting wavy curly shaggy nappy head/
ingesting coffee #2/half wheat bagel/
after 2 full days I finally found out my/
pc's gotta nasty 'narrator trojan' virus/
better get back to work on disposing of it/
arrrrrgggghhhhh!!!/1st virus problem in 5 yrs/
so how about you?/

**Edited To Add: This virus causes beaucoup pop-ups. I log online with AOL, minimize it, then open Firefox to surf. Every few minutes, another Firefox window, or an IE window, or an ad opens up. If I go away and come back, I've got about 20 open windows and more coming. You can keep deleting them, but who wants to do that? You can find the offending file (just had another Firefox window pop up) and delete it, but the beauty (not) of this virus is that it replicates each time you power on. Smart little fucker, innit? I went into Safe Mode and deleted the file, as recommended on a site I saw, but that didn't work either.

Onward through the fog to Plan B. Anybody got a Plan B? Fuck.

If all goes according to plan, a select group of cocaine addicts could be lining up in Miami this April for a chance to get quickly and painlessly clean. Thanks to an anonymous donor, neurologist Deborah Mash can resume clinical studies of ibogaine--the drug that could be the best anti-drug the CIA never told you about. Ibogaine's history began in the 60's in New York, where college student and self-described recreational heroin user Howard Lotsof gets freebie capsules of ibogaine from a chemist friend cleaning out his freezer. Lotsof takes one for the hell of it. To his amazement, when he comes down his brain is washed clean of desire for any drug whatsoever. He hands out capsules to friends and soon realizes he is sitting on a gold mine.

Buy Blue's current campaign is about Progressive car insurance. I checked their rates online about 3 years ago and they were they same as my State Farm insurance, but I'm going to check it again. And see who Buy Blue says State Farm supports while I'm at it.

Pimpzilla, Mozilla Firefox Theme. See Screenshot

Pharmacotherapy or Neurocops? Internal Policing and the Future of the Drug War. Would you vaccinate your child against drugs? more...

Today is the last day of some of your life.

The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

Speeding up Firefox the right way. Link His info is more suited to all connections and computer speed. (via: del.icio.us)

Thank you everyone for the kind and generous offers to burn and send me the 1.0 Firefox I've been having trouble with, but I now have one coming soon!

Need an e-card for that special occasion? (thanks, miller)

Can you get high and get clean at the same time? Some American drug and alcohol addicts think so. Vince Beiser chronicles the travails of those who go in search of ibogaine, a purported miracle treatment that also produces a hallucinatory high. Addicts are crossing the border to try this powerful hallucinogen that is banned in the US. I really want to talk to someone who's personally tried ibogaine and hear their story on it. I wonder if it's similar to methadone in that you can be on some type of ibogaine maintenance for as long as needed. more...

I found Montage-A-Google at Gary's site. Generates blocks of pics at your request. I haven't created my masterpiece yet, but will attempt a trial run later.

Would someone please burn Firefox 1.0 to a cd and mail it to me? Email me if you can and I'll give you a mailing address. Over the past couple of years, I've had no trouble downloading Firefox versions .05, .06, .07, .08, .09, but my pc absolutely will not download 1.0. Or if I can download it, it won't install. I've tried Mozilla's and many other people's 1.0 versions, but it just ain't gonna happen.

I'm still trying to get my Firefox 1.0 upgrade set up. It came out this week. I've never had problems downloading Firefox before, but evidentally I need to uninstall all the old Firefox stuff first, after I backup my profile. Anyone else using the Firefox 1.0 yet?

Please tread softly. I'm trying to quit smoking for the 2,977th time.

Ecology experts are predicting better than average fall color in the Great Smoky Mountains near Asheville, N.C. The area boasts one of the most diverse range of microclimates and tree species. Elevations range from 1,500 feet in the valleys to 6,684 feet at Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. There's also the famous 6,030-foot peak of "Cold Mountain," made famous in the book and movie. Experts are predicting a promising harvest of color, based on late summer weather patterns. Yellow birches, red sourwoods, red to yellow maples, yellow pin cherries yellow poplars will show first. [more »]

Welcome to Spread Firefox. You are our marketing department. Download this very small, additional browser and try it for yourself. See why many have switched.
(via - fusion anomalog)

GOP documentary, "Celsius 41.11," is a reference to the temperature at which the human brain begins to die from exposure to heat -- or, in this case, what the filmmakers regard as overheated left-wing rhetoric. 'T'would be funny if 't'weren't so sad. Potential movie-goers may find the "Undies" Link below helpful. [more »]

Undies for those afflicted with cranial-rectal-inversion, more commonly known as head-up-your-asstitis. (Link - safe for work)

Easy to make favicon from a pic you have on your hard drive or website.
(Link via: fishbucket)

{Web Trail}
solipsistic
The Zero Boss
The Daily Bleed

{Quote For Today}
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Making FireFox Even Faster
I've heard it said, here and other places, that Opera is the fastest browser available. It is fast - there's no denying that - but there are ways to make FireFox render pages every bit as quickly, with just a few easy "tweaks." I had thought these adjustments were pretty well-known, but it's beginning to seem as though they may not be. So I thought it was worthwhile to bring these "hidden settings" more into the light.

To get started, type "about:config" in your FireFox address bar. The settings you're looking for are:

1.) network.http.pipelining
2.) network.http.pipelining.firstrequest
3.) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
4.) network.http.proxy.pipelining
5.) nglayout.ititialpaint.delay

Set #1, #2, and #4 to "true". Set #3 to a high number, like 32. Set #5 to 0.

Sure as hell worked for me.