The Smarmy Carny

A new version of Firefox (1.5) has been released!

What's new, you might ask?

• Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
• Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
• Improvements to popup blocking.
• Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.
• New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
• Many security enhancements.
• Lots of other stuff that I didn't bother mentioning here.

Can't live without Firefox? Or want to give it a try? Click the white box!

Don't Block the Box!
by Novac.

Just say no. Don't do it, man! Don't block the box!

The amazing thing (to this novice non-photographer, at least) is that I took this picture from inside my car and it still required no editing, except that I reduced the size by 50% or so.

The "Don't Block the Box" sign is at an intersection. In normal areas, you might instead see a "Do not block intersection" sign or something to that effect. "The box," as it were, is created by painting a large square in the intersection and then filling the entire intersection with diagonal lines. It's ugly and quite unnecessary. You sure know where "the box" is, though.

The intersection was not particarly noteworthy, other than the signs and the paint. It was a slightly larger intersection, but exactly what you'd expect from roads in that area. I wonder why it is that the drivers in that area are incapable of clearing the intersection. Perhaps gridlock or a nearby train or something backs the traffic up into the intersection. Or maybe there's just something in the drinking water there.

I'd like to be there the day they have to paint the lines that create "the box." It's got to be messy, shut down the intersection, and take at least 15 minutes.

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The changeover has officially begun! Change your bookmarks!

The blog Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity (formerly located at http://novac.is-a-geek.com:8080/blog) has undergone a name and address change.

If you're confused about whether to go to the 53 site or the Smarmy Carny site, here's a little rhyme to help you remember:

Fifty-three?
It used to be.
Smarmy Carny?
Time to party!

The template I'm currently using is a slightly modified MX4 Theme. This is mostly temporary, as I spent a month on a theme modification much unlike this one, and finally decided against it. Oh well, that's the way the Wookie crumbles.