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Firefox Tab Candy

whitney — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:55:48 +0000

This looks amazing. Although it’s still in beta, Firefox has plans to roll out an entirely different browser that finally revolutionizes the faulty linear browser experience we’ve been stuck in for years. with Tab Candy, you can group tabs according to theme and create a multifaceted workspace consisting of task-specific tabs. For people like me who have tons of tabs open at any given time, this is a super intuitive way to organize your tabs in a spatially intelligible way. the new Tab Candy model still feels like a stack of papers, but now instead all the tabs being “stapled” together in one window, you can sort the tabs into different stacks and, once they’ve finished the development, even share those stacks with other users.

OMG CAT RAVE!!1 (sic)

whitney — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:44:40 +0000

extra time + love of cats + unused glowsticks = OMG CAT RAVE!!1

crack shack or mansion?

whitney — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:16:13 +0000

with a mere million canadian dollars you can own property in vancouver, BC—but will it be a crack shack or a mansion?

you’ll never know until the welcoming committee arrives at your door.

thanks, whitney 2!!

animated gif paranoia

whitney — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:21:00 +0000

this site is transfixing. make and then upload your own animated gif to contribute.

via swissmiss

that’s what bea said

whitney — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:20:23 +0000

single-serving site dedicated to the old-lady pearls of wisdom from dorothy zbornak, the golden girl with an edge.

that’s what bea said

LOL limewire WTF??

whitney — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:35:56 +0000

go to google

type in ‘LOL Limewire’

hit ‘i’m feeling lucky,’

ask yourself, ‘WHY???’

30 things you probably don’t know

whitney — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:20 +0000

these facts are so interesting. out of the 30 i will probably only remember four, but for a few minutes after i read the list, the world was so damn interesting.

1. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

2. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

4. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

5. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2″ by 3-1/2″.

6. During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston’s wearing a watch).

7. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. This explains my current situation.

8. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

9. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

10. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

read the rest here. impress your friends/colleagues/second dates immensely.

the inherent music of websites

whitney — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:28:45 +0000

now if this isn’t a project of the unemployed, i don’t know what is:

from the codeorgan website:

“the codeorgan analyzes the ‘body’ content of any webpage and translates that content into music. the codeorgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synth style and drum pattern most appropriate to the page content.”

based on how many characters a website contains, how many of them can be found in the A-G musical scale, and the ratio of the two, Codeorgan will determine the scale (major or minor), the synthesizer (out of 10), and the drum loop (out of 16), and then play it all back to you in a 10-second clip. who knew your beanie baby website was so musical?!

chatroulolz

whitney — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:50:33 +0000

this chatroulette tumbler site is absolutely mesmerizing.

Taliban Boob Meetup

whitney — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:37:19 +0000

CLICK! CLICK! CLICK!

RELAX! it’s just a shady URL. or is it???