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Applying Fitt's Law to the Firefox Back button
Phil Wilson has a nice writeup on Enhancing Firefox GUI usability where he points out one good thing about IE: a bigger Back button. Of course, Phil isn't one to jibe at Firefox's back button. Rather he goes on to teach us how remedy this usability flaw by making the Back button bigger in Firefox, and this is possible thanks to the customizability of Firefox.
All you need to do is to add a few lines to the userChrome.css file in your profile - Phil explains all. (Trivia: you can combine the 2 CSS rules into a single "padding: 0 10px;").
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#1 Word of the Year for 2004: "Blog"
The word "blog" is the most looked up word of 2004 over at Merriam-Webster Online. Via Dan Li.
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Thunderbird 1.0RC is out
Update: Thunderbird 1.0 is out. Get that instead. Asa Dotzler has the scoop. Get it from the Mozilla Thunderbird release directory. Noteworthy: much nicer icons, work offline UI for Windows, HTTP authentication for RSS feeds.
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Widgets for your blog
Blogbloxes - widgets for your blog (or website). Smells like Konfabulator, et al. What will they think of next?
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Larry the cow
Larry the cow is one domesticated animal you probably haven't heard of (though you may have heard of our beloved South Park cows). He is the mascot of Gentoo Linux and there's a headshot of him over at Gentoo's About page (see "Gentoo Linux... in a poster").
Now, I came across this amusing bug today, bug 27727 - bug Lary (sic) can NOT be a Cow, that insists that Larry cannot be a cow but should rather have been a bull, being male. Dictionary.com says a cow is "a domesticated bovine of either sex or any age" so that was why the bug was left as WONTFIX. Still it is weird to see Larry with udders in this thread in the Gentoo forums. Larry is probably one of the first transgender/sexually ambiguous animal mascots in Linux history.
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