Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.

'Shindig'


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Jessica - May 28, 2009 6:15:12 am PDT #10165 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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[eta: Good list of HTML entities for other characters:

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Vortex - May 28, 2009 6:17:14 am PDT #10166 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Thanks Jessica. I don't know what I was doing wrong before, but when I posted it here to make sure I had the right code, it worked.


Jon B. - May 28, 2009 6:50:49 am PDT #10167 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

OK, I think the true means that the client Javascript continues to execute while the server request loads. Is that right?

I think you're right. See this: [link]

t edit Oooh, a better link: [link]


tommyrot - May 28, 2009 6:53:10 am PDT #10168 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

drool....

MSI's MacBook Air Killer Is a Real Gas

Let's cut to the chase and hit you with the sell: The MSI X340 is a MacBook Air at half the price. Interested? R ead on.

Netbook shop MSI has deconstructed Apple's pioneering three-pound wedge and built what is, put simply, an amazingly credible knockoff. Like the Air, the X340 transcends many of the limitations of the netbook world, though it still has a few of its own flaws to contend with.

For starters, the X340 (aka the X Slim) is considerably better muscled than your typical netbook, featuring a glossy 13.4-inch (1366 x 768 pixels) screen, 320-GB hard drive and 2 GB of RAM. Like Apple's ultralight, it's incredibly thin — about 0.8 inches at its thickest —and it actually weighs slightly less than the Air, just 2.9 pounds. The only real departure from the Air's specs is the new 1.4-GHz ultra-low-voltage SU3500 chip, which is based on Intel's Core 2 Solo CPU. The Air offers a full Core 2 Duo, by contrast. Still, the SU3500 ekes a lot of performance out of its mere 5.5 watts of power: The X340's performance wasn't much worse than the MacBook Air's in our testing.

...

Still, it's hard not to be enchanted with the X340, and that $900 price tag looks like a typo when it's put side by side with a $1,800 Air. Put simply: This laptop is a true head-turner, and if squeezing every last ounce out of your bankroll is your game, this is — by a wide margin — the best value going in the world of ultralights.


amych - May 28, 2009 7:50:14 am PDT #10169 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

OMG GOOGLE WAVE: [link] (note: not yet available)


Jessica - May 28, 2009 7:57:25 am PDT #10170 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Woah.


amych - May 28, 2009 8:00:09 am PDT #10171 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I. know.


Sean K - May 28, 2009 8:26:46 am PDT #10172 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

OMG GOOGLE WAVE:

!!!!!!!


tommyrot - May 28, 2009 8:33:54 am PDT #10173 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Didja' know that in Firefox, Ctrl+Tab lets you move between tabs? I just found that out.

How long has that worked? I remember a few years ago being unhappy that didn't work....


tommyrot - May 28, 2009 8:38:58 am PDT #10174 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

More Javascript: How do you turn the cursor into an hourglass? I've found this:

document.body.style.cursor = "wait";

and

document.body.style.cursor = "default";

to turn the hourglass on and off, respectively, but that doesn't work here. Does the CSS CURSOR setting supersede this?