Is everybody ready for the return of The Family Guy on May 1st? I know I’m looking forward to it. In the meantime, enjoy a great selection of music from The Family Guy, including a whole bunch of songs from the show in MP3 format.
The Linguistics Of The Simpsons
HeiDeas has written a great post analyzing the linguistics of The Simpsons entitled “Beyond embiggens and cromulent.” Too fun…
Google Multilingual Definitions
Google Blog reports that the already cool Google definition feature has been expanded to include multilingual capabilities: [define:Ukraina].
America We Stand As One
I think this might just be the sappiest, cheesiest song/video ever. Ever.
By the way, a quick apology to Gene Simmons for thinking that was him initially. :-p
Pretty In Pink 2?!
A while ago I posted about the possibility of the movie 32 Candles, purportedly a sequel to the classic ‘80s flick Sixteen Candles. Well, I haven’t heard much about that one recently, but according to stereogum, director John Hughes has announced that Pretty In Pink will have a sequel. The movie is due out next year, and Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, and John Cryer will reportedly reprise their roles.
I don’t know what to think about this one. The fact that John Hughes and most of the original cast is involved gives me hope, but there is the distinct chance that all this will do is sully the original, as so many other crappy sequels have done in the past…
Update: Apparently this was an elaborate “April Fools” hoax, which I might have figured out had I read the obviously tongue-in-cheek original story instead of the reconstituted version. Oh, and the fact that I read it on April 5th slightly diluted my skepticism as well, although I really should have seen this coming…
Save Passwords In Firefox Bookmarklet
The Password Manager in Firefox is a great feature, but I noticed that password autofill didn’t seem to work with all sites. Now I know why:
Some sites, including many banks and a few other sites such as Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Passport, tell browsers not to remember passwords for visitors using autocomplete=“off”. This bookmarklet makes the browser ignore autocomplete=“off” temporarily, allowing you to save passwords even on sites that use autocomplete=“off”.
For those of you unfamiliar with bookmarklets, they’re basically bookmarks with embedded JavaScript commands rather than URLs; there is a good selection of bookmarklets available here. Bookmarklets can be dragged to the toolbar of Firefox, in this case creating a button that, when pressed just before entering a password at a site where autocomplete is turned off, will direct Firefox to thereafter remember the password and autofill it for you. I got it to work at Yahoo and look forward to trying out a couple of banking sites that had the same issue.
Google Maps Adds Satellite Photo View
Google Blog reports that Google Maps has added a satellite image option to its map view. Very cool…
Mars Attacks DrikoLand!
Check out the Netdisaster.com “Mars Attacks!” version of DrikoLand. And feel free to experiment in the destruction of my site… π
Google Gulp
Google has decided to branch out from its tech roots, announcing “Google Gulp (BETA)β’ with Auto-Drinkβ’ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of ‘smart drinks’ designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.” Mmm… Glutamate Grape. π
The Most Awesome Movie Training Songs
I don’t usually post Ask MetaFilter threads on their own, but a recent request for suggestions in “compiling a workout mix-cd of the most Awesome Cheesily Inspirational songs from movie training sequences” was too chock-full of cheesy ‘80s goodness to not share… π