Using Mozilla as your browser, and sad that Microsoft no longer allows you to access MSN? Fret no more: install the UserAgent Toolbar, developed by David Illsley.

Technical specifications for the Atari.

Yay! Get your own tiny web browser here! The Off By One browser is only 600kb to download. Compare that to IE’s 60mb or more? Of course, OB1 doesn’t support a whole lot of things, and isn’t very functional, but it is cute.

Welcome to the Great Abbreviation Hunt.

FYI, NPA and NSX are telco codes for an area code and prefix of a telephone number.

If I had one of these Hitler dolls, I’d have to surgically implant one of those Barbie voice-chips. This way, Adolf could always squeak “Math is hard” and “Shopping is fun!”

It’s 5:30 in the morning, and Robert and I are considering our ages in hexadecimal. I blame Marcia for this, entirely.

Me: How old am I in hex?
Robert: Um.. ok, let’s see.. carry the one, divide by..
Me: Ok, I’m 1B.
Robert: You cheat. You used calc.exe.
Me: So? How old are you?
Robert: Hmm.. I’m.. how old is Jeff?
Me: What?! You can’t use Jeff as an age reference! When were you born?!
Robert: I can’t remember that far back..
Me: Jeff’s as old as my sister, and she was born in 1977.
Robert: I must be … dude, I’m 18!
Me: In hex.

Auroras

In late 92 or 93, I remember seeing this weird reddish glow in the sky one night. It turned out to be an extremely intense Aurora Borealis display that reached as far south as Florida.

Apparently cellphones scare away ghosts. Or perhaps people are more interested in chatting on their cellphones than creating spooky hoaxes.

Hey Kids! It’s time for Fun Facts about the RIAA!

The RIAA considers copyright more important than the 1st Amendment.

Hilary Rosen, president of the RIAA, likes to have sex with women.

The RIAA has explained why CD prices are still so expensive.

The RIIA now wants legal authority to hack into your personal computer to look for illegally-obtained media.

Maybe you should think about this the next time you purchase a CD, or a DVD, or a movie ticket.

Somebody posted to NANOG a pretty useful tool for finding basic information on a telco central office given an NPA/NXX (that’s an area code / prefix pair for the unl33t).

I seem to remember a tool on speakeasy‘s pages that gave far more info, but it’s lost in the mists of memory. Should have blogged it.