Daniel Andrlik

I get your point, but 'chrome' isn't specific to Firefox, it's a general term for the borders and widgets belonging to a window in a GUI. Firefox's GUI has probably the most popularized use of term, but you'll notice the search results are already changing as people continue to write and publish about Google's browser on the web. - Daniel Andrlik

well of course, google owns data heh - Eric Rice

As Daniel predicted, almost all listings for Mozilla's chrome in Googling for 'chrome' and 'browser' are gone with all links being Google Chrome, not Mozilla Chrome. I am not calling foul, I'm just noting how fast data moves and changes. - Eric Rice

Shit, I want that for my DESK - Eric Rice

Yeah, same here. One for my desk. No one would know the difference. :-P - David

yes - but I meant more the style of using ff without all the neat gm scripts for it. ;) - Nicole Simon

what exactly scriptts? - silpol

@silpol: first and foremost the one that reveals the usernames behind the nicknames =) - Alex

When are these idiots going to finally get it? Oh yeah, when we all DIE because of their incompetence. - Dillon K. Hoops

Yeah, that whole "humans produce a lot of trash" stufff is just liberal nonsense. We've got a swirling mass of plastic bags circulating the Pacific Ocean cause that's how we like it! - Lon Harris via twhirl

Well, the website is called "thinkprogress.org". Ya think there is a little left bias there? - John Denver

Some people have to get a life, and not take everything so seriously. - Patrick Minze

John, bias or no, those comments they posted are just laughable. My personal favorite is : "I can’t wait to teach my kids how we’ve destroyed the Earth. … Pixar is teaching. I can’t wait. You know if your kid has ever come home and said, “Dad, how come we use so much styrofoam,” oh, this is the movie for you." Like, really? That's a tough question for him to answer? - Veronica

But read what the writer/director says about his film... everybody's wrong: http://www.christianitytoday.c... - Sean McCune

Veronica, I agree with you completely. My point was only that "news" that comes from sources with a bias to either side have to be taken with a grain of salt. I always tune up my BS filter when reading items from NPR or Rush Limbaugh equally. ;) - John Denver

Funny they ignore an "anti-socialist" message of the second half: Big Business & Big Government are indistinguishable. The end of the world comes with that merger as government provides a free, Utopian life with no incentive to work, and uniformed citizens lose all personal identity. They decide they'd rather go home to a mess, till the soil, raise nuclear families, enjoy wholesome entertainment (hoe-downs, "Hello Dolly"), and rebuild a free society than live their government-provided lifestyles. Right? ;) - Kevin Hessel

http://www.christianitytoday.c... - Sean McCune

FF mangled the first URL. The writer/director of Wall-E talks about the film and basically has gone in a whole different direction from anything being talked about by right or left regarding this film. - Sean McCune

Stanton's take on the issues raised by the film is interesting. But it doesn't make those with alternate interpretations "wrong." That's the beautiful thing about art - it can mean different things to different people. Certainly, a film can have subtext and meaning beyond what the director lays out to a magazine. - Lon Harris via twhirl

Lon: Sure it doesn't make them wrong if they interpret the movie differently. But it makes them wrong if they decide that Pixar or Stanton or whoever is "teaching" something that they explicitly deny. Of course, then the conspiracy theorists will just claim they're lying. :-) - Sean McCune

Sean: Yeah, I think we ultimately agree. The film has a surprising amount of depth, so a variety of potential takes on it could be offered, but it's clearly not intended to indoctrinate children into any kind of liberal conspiracy to save the planet unnecessarily, or whatever these loons are claiming. - Lon Harris via twhirl

It's well known that the left coast leans left. Take it with a grain of salt and enjoy the damn movie!! - Hal Rottenberg via twhirl

What a twisted interpretation of little fun movie. - Ralph Poole

I think we are more likely to destroy the planet with our solution to climate change than with too much carbon output. - Christian Burns

Like George Carlin said " the planet will be fine, we're in trouble. - Robert Hafer via fftogo

No, I just want to filter using those terms. I want a filter to show all my unread emails. - Veronica

I think you can only use it as a search "filter", not as a "true" filter. - Kevin C. Tofel

there is acutaly a google labs addon that just that - Matt Rider

in:inbox is:unread (did ou have a typo here for "in" or in the filter you tried to setup? - Naor

Don't filters run on all incoming mail, or is there some way I don't know to manually run a filter. If the former, than it doesn't really make sense to have a filter that asks for unread email, it's all unread as it's coming in. - Kyle Johnson via twhirl

if you put "label:unread" or "label:inbox" in the "Has the words" field, it works. - Larry

Try this: https://mail.google.com/mail/?... - J·Phil·Glockner

If you want to show all your unread emails, you can simply make a search for "is:unread". But maybe that's not what you meant, I'm not sure. - Vincent X

Larry & J. Phil are close. If I use "label:(unread inbox)" in a search, I can get the desired results. Now if we could just create a custom label with that query, that would do it. - Kevin C. Tofel

No, I know that. But I have a lot of other filters, so I don't want to see ALL unread, because that would include all my bacn and other junk. I just want the inbox. Oh well. - Veronica

You can turn on the Quick Links feature in Gmail Labs and then use it to create a bookmarked search request. It's kind of like a filter, unless you're trying to take an automated action based on those items. - Daniel Andrlik

Kevin, no need to a custom query, Gmail URLs are universal.. once the correct URL is constructed, you can just cut and paste it here. - J·Phil·Glockner

Okay, so if I understand correctly, your filters tag and process your bacn and other junk, getting them out of your inbox... Then in that case, if you want to view all of your unread emails in your inbox (and not the other stuff), running a search for "is:inbox is:unread" should work, but I might be slow and missing the point of what you're trying to do. :) - Vincent X

The Quick Links Labs addon works perfectly for this. I've been doing it since Labs put it out (and was doing it manually before that). Run your search for "is:unread in:inbox". Once the results are showing, make the quick link, and you're done. After you've activated Labs and Quick Links, of course. ;) - abacab via twhirl

Got it! Between J. Phil's comment and abacab's, looks like you can create the custom query and then use a Quick Link for it. I'm excited and I wasn't even looking for the solution! ;) - Kevin C. Tofel

I just added Quick Links. Very nice, quick and easy. That should do the trick! - Vincent X

be careful though that some quick links will not stay and sadly sadly they do not do what saved searches did (= apply them as additional filter to the current search) but they will do in the meantime. - Nicole Simon

I believe (and hope) quick links will end up sticking around (with some tweaking here and there to accommodate saved-searches functionality, maybe?). At the very least, if Quick Links goes away, someone will whip up a GM script and get it working again (assuming someone hasn't done it already). - abacab via twhirl

Yeah, I remember when they first started the blog and got a little bit of mocking, but I'm impressed with how seriously they're taking the socnet stuff, not to mention how well they are doing it. - Daniel Andrlik

And it doesn't have that 'oh we're just doing it because we're supposed to' vibe that seems to be present in the so-called 'social' space. Look at those happy happy commenters, heh. - Eric Rice

Eric - are you looking forward to the sony home service.. that 2nd-life-esque thing that's been in development forever? - J·Phil·Glockner

J.Phil: moderately... thing that I'm noticing now is how people are using things like GTA 4 Free mode as a virtual world.. it's a place to hang, relax, socialize, sometimes play/fight... There's some undiscovered territory yet that Home has to offer, and it might not even been from Home itself. (Also, I think the comparisons to SL do more harm than good, and also, not fully congruent.) - Eric Rice

BTW - sure, the comments are happy, but I wish I could compress all the single-word posts into one tokenized post.. like GZIP them or something. Sweet! x18 - J·Phil·Glockner

You just take it one day at a time. Sometimes, one hour at a time, one minute at a time on bad days. - David

Alcohol.. - Fred Grott

I was out of work sick 2 days this week too Leo - i know how you feel. - Joel Ross Housman via twhirl

Once I get over the aggravation of being sick, I'm in the "I get sick rarely" club, it often becomes a welcome respite. Except for the illness part. - Warner Crocker

I don't like being sick but I certainly don't give up on life cause of a flu bug. I just want to be left alone in my misery. - Chris Kuhner

I am the world's worst sick person. I lay around and look pitiful and try and guilt me wife into getting me stuff. That doesn't tend to work well. - Kyle Johnson

We men are all tough until we get sick. Then we're big babies again. - Jason Huebel

It's all about rest and fluids (water) to recover from any viral illness... I am a physician and I can never get patients to do the only things that really work... sleep and drink tons of water! When they actually DO listen though they get better MUCH faster... also... if you can start Zicam within an hour or so of your first symptoms is really makes a difference as well... especially for cold viruses... - Patricia Hale

Take life a day at a time, and be thankful for the not-so-bad days. Makes you appreciate life more, and the little things :) - Melissa

Hi Leo! Hope you get better soon. I'm a long time listener and fan since the Screensavers! Just wanted to send you some greetings from Bremen, Germany. Joachim - Joachim Moncoq

Never take health for granted. I've been chronically ill for almost 14 years and I'm only 47 now. The medical industry is over-rated and corrupt. My problems started while I was in Honduras for the Peace Corps when I ate a germ-ridden sandwhich. That 1st night is burned into memory cuz my fiance and I were at a theatre in Tegucigalpa watching Shindler's List. I spent the whole time standing by the back door so I could run to the bathroom. It's shameful that our society looks down on the chronically ill. - Brad Stolba

Imagine having a flu bug last for a month. Hope you're feeling better now! - Margaret Kerr via twhirl

Leo, Twitter has been VERY sick for months, but do you hear them whining? Pull up your socks, my man! <with a smile> - ron k jeffries

I get the flu bug, then lay out on the couch, move my laptop to my stomach, and let its warmth soothe me. That's how I deal it. - Ivan

Same here. Which makes my wife scoff at how men can be such babies when it comes to being sick. - Hutch Carpenter

You adapt, you have no choice. Adapt or go crazy and die. - Michael W. May via twhirl

You have a man cold? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - AJ Kohn

Exactly - you adapt. Hardest part is not being able to talk about such things without being called a whinger, or worse, a malingerer. - Patricia Hanrahan

The same happened to me Margaret. The whole month with the flu. I still went to work, though. - Alejandro S.

If you like Wonton soup, now is the time to get your hands on some. It always fights my colds/flus valiantly! - Mike Lewis

... get well Leo from jp ( the fireman ) - johnpiercy

Ah, the man-cold syndrome, as illustrated here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Daniel Andrlik

My wife has Crohn's and my son has celiac. You carry on, because there is nothing else you can do. In the end life is still good. - RAPatton

Dunno. Could be like today, seeing the ex-wife for the first time since the divorce, happy as can be. Rips everything back open. - Steven Buehler via twhirl

guess you just carry on - it's your only life after all. it's amazing, what people can do. brilliant. - Günther Mulder via twhirl

I feel the same way! I have this terrible flu bug for the past few days, but I have no fever. It makes me feel as if I cheating, are this highschool flashbacks? - Ori

hey Leo ... speaking as someone with chronic illness (I have Lupus) .. you just get by .. you get up everyday and you try not to complain too much. I pull myself together and continue to pursue my goals (I am overly ambitious) and to hang out with my friends (of which there are too many at times) and spent time with my son (who anyone with children knows .. kids take lots of energy) - I refuse to lay down and die .. even though I wont live as long.. I will live while I am here. - Jenz

feel better - Grant via twhirl

I had a 12-yr suicidal depression from 1986-98. When all of life seemed dark, I felt as if even if someone granted my favorite wish, that I still wouldn't care about living... - Mitchell Tsai

mitchell: for me, being depressed means not having any wishes... - edythe

I have delt with chronic headaches for the past 35 years, you ratchet up your willpower and get through the day, mostly. Like the saying: some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you. - Robert Hafer via twhirl

Chronic illness for people such as myself is just another item in a day. Deal with something long enough and it becomes just part of the routine. I suffer from insomnia and have a problem with my frontal lobe that has to be treated with a variety of medications and I just soldier on, day in day out. But, the upside to this means that despite my ailments I am the best Admin anyone has ever seen. Chronic illness is just a speed bump, not a road block. - Parker R. Snyder

Polly: Yeah. "Not having any wishes" is maybe a better way to describe it. When either the world is entirely gray...or really unenjoyably painful (as opposed to fun pain...like a good workout or struggling to help a friend). - Mitchell Tsai

Can I look up slashdot on the coffee maker? - J·Phil·Glockner

I got a Mustang convertible at first, but ended up getting a leafblower instead. I'll never go back! - Robert H

Well you know what they say... once you go leafblower... - Eric Rice

Why does one device have to smoke/kill another? I own both an iPhone and a Kindle. I love them both. They're both in my pockets right now (cargo pants FTW!). I use them both a ton, but for different things. The iPhone SUCKS for reading books. As in, you can't, because it's almost impossible to get books onto the device. And there aren't many available. And the UX is awful for long form reading. So I don't use my iPhone to read books. I use my Kindle. But my Kindle sucks at the web. Trade-offs. - Josh Bancroft

I think the iPhone will kill my toaster.... with an iphone who even needs toast? If I was wonderbread I would be researching my own mobile device as well! The face that they don't have a mobile device out shows they have had horrible management for years. - Stefan Hayden

Only thing I hate about the Kindle is the hardware UI. I still don't know how to hold the thing. Did I say it doesn't ring cuz, well, it's not a phone? :) BRB I have to answer the blender. - Eric Rice

a ringing kindle... hmmm.. (prepares pitch) - Ruben Llibre

Oh man, this article is ridiculous. - Daniel Andrlik

eric: like answering blender very funny - mike "glemak" dunn

The iPod Touch doesn't ring. And if the iPhone gets and ebook reader then it's likely that the touch will too. - Rob Safuto

Apple is probably waiting too see if there really is a market for eBooks. If there is, they flip a switch to allow reading material to be downloaded via the iTunes Music store, and game over competition. Tons of people are already used to downloading digital content for iPods via the iTunes Store, books are just another file type. The installed base will just stay with Apple rather than try something new like the kindle. - Jason Kaneshiro

more like the istrain :) - steplow is Steve

haha steplow, I agree. I love the iPhone in general but for reading lengthy text it's a bit too small of a device to be the best option. - Robert Seidman

@mikedunn my ear, WILL IT BLEND?! - Eric Rice

Just because one device CAN do something absolutely, doesn't mean will absolutely use it. My playstation is basically a computer with memory card slots, hard drive, wifi, bluetooth media players, web browsers and all that, and yet, I will use a computer for computing. - Eric Rice

Even though it's hacky in practice, Sony's PSP makes a great e-book reader as well. There's a small desktop application that converts the text a sequence of jpegs that you flip through in the image browser. You'll be surprised how fast you can devour a book if you take the 10 minutes to set it up. - sergiooo

Personally, I'd love to see color e-ink take off so I can get all my comics on a larger, Kindle-like device. - Daniel Andrlik

Daniel: I had some manga on my Sony Reader... it worked so-so, but felt like reading the weekday newspaper version. - Eric Rice

Sergiooooooooo a few years ago Jason from Insomnia Radio made some amazing PSP formatted media magazines, tied to music and such. This is of interest to me since Sony is paying attention now to this multimedia document format. When is a document a thing that contains all media? (Disclosure: I'm developing mixed media content for console/gaming/device audiences) - Eric Rice

Balls. The Kindle is made for reading. Sure the iPhone could handle ebooks but there would definitely be some tradeoffs so that the damn thing could do all the other 10000 things it does. - Erica Baker

All this makes me wish the old Eric was back. The one that complained about everything and told us what was wrong with EVERYTHING -- the one who brought nothing to the table. - Do You KNOW Clarence?

@dykc i see what you did there xD - Eric Rice

@dykc Damn you beat me to it. - Jim Stanger

OK Donna,errr Eric-Roomba Turbo FTW! Can it get SL in Android? - Mark Forman

You know what makes an awesome ebook reader? The Nokia 770 internet tablet. Open source ebook software. Oh, and you can use voip on it. And the battery last longer than on a iPhone. Did I mention the screen is 800x480 but only 4.3" diagonal? And you can find them on eBay or even Woot for under 200 bucks? They have Wireless-G with no restrictions built-in? Bluetooth? They fit in your pocket? I could go on... - J·Phil·Glockner

But does the Nokia 770 battery life compare to the Kindle? Nope. - Josh Bancroft

Josh - damn that e-paper and its persistent display! hehe .. actually I have a lot of problems with the Kindle hardware. I don't like the entire left and right edge are giant buttons.. I'd be accidentally turning pages all the time. .. If someone developed a cheap snap-on cover that could be snapped to the back when you were using it, that would fix that problem handily. - J·Phil·Glockner

Yeah, I have to pick up my Kindle gingerly, usually from the top (above the screen) or bottom edges, to avoid hitting those buttons. But I've gotten in the habit of "locking" my Kindle (hitting Alt+aA to put it into sleep mode and lock all the keys) when I put it down, so when I pick it up again, it doesn't matter if I hit ANY of the buttons, until I unlock it. - Josh Bancroft