Archive for December, 2005

Remembering Saul Bellow

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
—from The Adventures of Augie March, 1953
Saul Bellow was mentioned this morning on Eight [...]

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Safari “Mail Contents of This Page” for Firefox?

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Does anyone know if there is a Firefox extension that emulates the functionality of Safari’s “Mail Contents of This Page” command (available under the File menu)? The command allows you to send the actual HTML content of a web page as an HTML mail message. I find this useful for short articles. It saves the [...]

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The Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

This is the funniest thing I have seen on Saturday Night Live in years.
View it at: NBC SNL or YouTube or YouTube

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