Firefox Extensions I Couldn’t Live Without

I was doing some work yesterday, and realized how much more painful it would’ve been without various extensions in Firefox. So I thought I’d eulogize some of my favorites.
Tab Mix Plus - Gives you near-complete control over how tabs function. Whenever I use a Firefox installation that doesn’t have Tab Mix Plus, or [...]

Moviegoer’s Bill of Rights

Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir delineates (again) what moviegoers want from the theatre experience. Nothing really new here, so why aren’t theatres listening?

Australian Idol - Auditions

It’s probably something of an exercise in futility to post about Australian Idol, considering everyone I know is in the United States and it isn’t shown in the United States (and I get it via downloads of questionable legality), but I want to really badly. And then I think, well, if I don’t, no [...]

Music Monday - Belle and Sebastian, etc.

Belle and Sebastian
My friend Anne from the UK inducted me into the love of indie music when she took it upon herself to send me mix CDs to educate me out of my Top-40 Radio-induced music mediocrity. Or something. In any case, most of my current favorite bands are ones she included on [...]

DVD of the Week - Heroes Season One

With less than a month before the fall TV season starts, most of the studios are releasing the DVD sets of last year’s seasons–just in time for people to catch up. Of all the releases this week, I’d recommend Heroes Season 1. It was one of the best new shows last year, following [...]

So You Think You Can Dance Top 6 and Top 4

Since these episodes aired last week and the week before, I’m going to run all the videos together and not do a lot of commentary. Just so the videos are up here in case anyone missed the show or something.
This means there are a TON of videos after the jump. Don’t say I [...]

Book Info Search

I wish that book resources on the internet were as easy to find as film and music resources. Now, maybe I’m just better at looking for film and music information than book information, but I find it odd that for each type of book-related website I’d like to find, I can name an exact [...]

Image Resizing Using Seam Carving

This is really, really cool technically, but I’m not at all sure how I feel about it ethically or artistically.