[ Must-have Greasemonkey Scripts 2010 ]

If you don't have greasemonkey for Firefox - start here. Then click below to add these awesome modifications to websites you use every day.

1. Google Search Sidebar for FF3 adds relevant results from Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, Flickr, and Youtube to Google search results page.
2. This script will enhance the look of Craigslist so that it is more pleasing to the eye, and doesn't look like a goddamn startup.
3. Craigslist image preview 2 When browsing craigslist, view a listing's images as thumbnails right below the listing. Images expand on mouse-over. Based on "Craigslist image preview" by Jeffrey Palm. Perfect for those fast porn sessions.
   
4. OS X Style for Google Reader makes it look beautiful!
5. Twitter Script: Nested Replies, Custom Search Tabs, Autocomplete, Pagination, RT button, Media Embed, URL Expansion, Hash Tag Search Links, Social Link.
6. Mailto links to Gmail: Rewrites "mailto:" links to GMail compose links.
7. Google Book Downloader

There are tons more. But these are my favorites.

P.S. Do you email your friends various links as your surf the web? Then use the Gmail This! Bookmarklet to make it even easier.

[ Notecarder's Signing Off ]

I've decided to let my ownership of notecarder.com expire, because, let's be honest, the blog has kind of fizzled out over the last few months, and I don't want to pay for it any more.

Fear not! If you are interested in tracking my thoughts on the interweb (or looking into some of the best moments from the 2008 election, you can still visit notecarder at it's new (original) location:

notecarder.blogspot.com

or, as I've said before, you can twitter me, where I think you'll find I've set up a nice little 140 character shop.

Peace, ya'll.

[ TV I'm Watching Right Now ]

...or why I might possibly, slightly be looking forward to the end of summer.

American Dad
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Kings
Lost
Parks and Recreation
Reno 911
Saturday Night Live
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
The Office
Weeds

To download all of these TV shows, I direct you to the feed I created via ShowRSS. For a complete guide on the illegal downloading of these items, see their FAQ's. Added bonus: No Commercials!

Also, if you haven't already, twitter me.

[ Portland Tutoring Collective Goes Live ]

I wanted to tell you about a new tutoring company I started. It's called the Portland Tutoring Collective and it's a co-op of professionally-trained tutors looking to offer a local alternative to the big box companies that are out there. It's not that Kaplan or the Princeton Review are so bad, it's just they pay their tutors obscenely low wages and make them sign restrictive "Non-compete Agreements", designed to keep them from negotiating higher rates or moving onto other opportunities. So... okay, they are that bad.

Basically, we were tired of it, and so my friends and I created an alternative.

In order for our scrappy start-up to have any chance competing against the Kaplans and the Princeton Reviews of the world, we need your help and your voice. Please show your support of me and this new project by helping spread the word. Here are just a few simple ways to root for the little guy and help make sure PTC will be a success:

- Visit our website at PortlandTutoringCollective.com to read all about us.
- Forward this to your friends and family, especially anyone who lives in the Portland area.
- Become fans of ours on Facebook.
- Follow us on Twitter.
- If you have a blog or website, please link to our site. It will give the google bots something to feast on!

Viva la resistance! And long-live Portland!

Cheers!

[ Passive Aggressive Notes ]

...are cracking me up. Check it out.

[ The Velvet Revolution & the Iranian One ]

"Walking around [Prague during the Velvet Revolution] the morning we arrived we were approached by three Czech students. After determining that we were not secret police—jeans, leather jackets, and American accents made us likelier to be secret police—they gave us some fliers. They implored us to carry the fliers out of the country with us when we left. They made sure we understood that we would have smuggle the fliers out. We would have to hide them from border guards. We would need to conceal them in our luggage, or rolled up and stuck in our toothpaste tubes, or in our underwear."

Dan Savage, sex columnist extraordinaire has an amazing story of his time in Prague during the Velvet Revolution. It's a must-read and also links to the words of Vaclev Havel on the whole Iranian matter.

[ Guess Who Fucking Said This? ]

"If [a State] were to permit homosexuals to marry, these marital benefits would... presumably have to be made available to homosexual couples and surviving spouses of homosexual marriages on the same terms as they are now available to opposite-sex married couples and spouses. To deny federal recognition to same-sex marriages will thus preserve scarce government resources, surely a legitimate government purpose."

So who do you think? George Bush? Darth Cheney? Rush, right? Wrong. The answer is good ol' Barack Obama. Yeah. I can't fucking believe it either.

[ Quotable ]

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. -Pablo Picasso

[ You Have Already Seen This ]

But it is hilarious.

[ Comic of the Day: Starbucks ]

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