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My mother-in-law and sister-in-law were visiting for the weekend to celebrate the twins third birthday. My sister-in-law brought over a bunch of “Best of Muppet Show” DVDs and we had a blast tonight watching a couple episodes. See, though they have never watched any of the movies, my boys have become fascinated with Star Wars characters thanks to a gift of some Pez Dispensers last Christmas (“Daddy, can I play with Emperor Palpatine?”), so Jacob and Joshua went total ape-shit over the Mark Hammill / “Stars of Star Wars” episode. And I found out that I’ve had a little crush on Carol Burnett for a couple decades thanks to those airings our family used to watch on the CBC…

I’ve complained before about Firefox not supporting split view and encouraged readers to vote for Bug 231156. I just learned from the bug this morning that Firefox has a few extensions to give you this very thing. The one that I like the best is Split Browser, which took the approach that the “split” should be at the browser level (across all tabs) rather than at the per-tab/document level (which I would have originally preferred). I think the choice makes some sense, because that way you can compare two different documents as well as two regions of the same document.

I also wish it had the little scroll-bar splitter that is present in so many Microsoft Office applications. But right-clicking and choosing Split isn’t so bad for those rare cases where I want to compare two sections of a loooong web page. All in all, I’m pretty happy with Split Browser though…

Orinoco has put up a couple more SVG games that you can play inside your browser (either Firefox 1.5+ or Opera 9+). Click To Read More...

A few days ago, tor posted this announcement/plea to the community. It’s a grim reality that Firefox’s SVG implementation is not where it should be (some big pieces missing). Though I’ll be happy with the improvements in SVG support coming in Firefox 3 (some cool filter effects like Gaussian Blur), I was really hoping to see at least Declarative Animation make it into Firefox 3, even working pieces of it. Click To Read More...

I don’t like to be reminded that I’m missing GDC this year, but Rob sent me this little video reminder. The video is of a soon-to-be-released game for the PS3 called “Little Big Planet” which allows up to 4 players to construct their own fully physical world, or download other levels from other players and play it as a game. Go watch it!

Last night’s episode of Lost “Enter 77″ feigned some answers, but of course provoked more questions. Did we learn anything? Click To Read More...

I finally settled on a remote control solution for my Home Theater Personal Computer (HTPC): The SnapStream Firefly PC Remote, $49.99 USD with free shipping from Amazon. Here’s how to set things up in OpenSUSE 10.2. Click To Read More...