I don't know a way to encode it to a particular bookmark, but shift-leftclick opens the target of a hyperlink in a new window, and it works on bookmarks too.

dcp, okay, I think that will have to do. thanks!

The very awesome Handbrake DVD-ripper for the Mac is now available for Windows and Linux, too. Plus, shiny new features like AppleTV support that I'll probably never use.

So, in continuing phone discussion, I'm thinking about getting the Nokia N80: [link]

Data plans royally suck here, but the thought of at least getting to get my email anywhere is very, very appealing. Thoughts?

Blast from the past: The coming record revolution: digital discs (Nov, 1981)

A Sony technician slipped a small disc into the slot of a player no larger than a portable cassette machine. I noticed the record’s shiny surface broke light into rainbow colors. Seconds later I was bathed in rich, wide-ranging stereo music that sounded better than anything I’d ever heard from discs or tapes.

Sony Corporation’s Dr. Toshi Doi, a leading digital-systems designer, explained that this was a true digital record: Information stored as number codes on its surface was being converted into music. Instead of grooves, this disc had an optical track “read” by a laser beam. I heard absolutely no surface noise or distortion and no pitch fluctuations from the spinning disc. Dynamic range, or the difference between the loudest and softest musical sounds, was awesome.

You can’t buy such a digital audio disc (DAD) now at any price. But players and digital discs will be on the market in 1982-’83—sooner than anticipated. The new DAD technology merges hardware similar to that used for videodiscs IPS, July ‘801 with specially developed digital integrated circuits. Disc players, which can be plugged into any conventional hi-fi system, could cost from $500 to $1,000. Discs, initially, will cost about $15.

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Actually, each side of a Philips-Sony disc has a storage capacity of over eight billion bits. This is more capacity than 60 minutes of sound requires, so the added digital storage space offers fascinating new possibilities for hi-fi recordings. Some of the extra two-billion-odd bits, for example, can store detailed information about the music tracks—length, sequence, title, or perhaps the text of selections. This added information might be displayed on an alphanumeric display on the player, or other models could put it on a TV monitor.

Wow.

I purchased my first CD player in 1984 I think. Yikes, that was a while back now.

My dad definitely had one by the time I was three or four. So 1987 at the latest.

Have we talked about this (or similar) before? Anyway, (apparently) no more lost posts!

Firefox with Greasmonkey: The Protect Textarea Greasemonkey script monitors the textareas on a web page and alerts you if you try navigating away from the page before submitting the changes in the textarea.

That means, for example, if you've typed some text into a comment box but you try following a link or closing your tab before you submit the comment, you'll see an alert warning you that the form hasn't been submitted. Couple this with the previously mentioned Textarea Backup script and you should never lose another online opus.

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I'm having a Tivo problem. Last night, while I was watching TV, the screen went black and the lights on the front of the Tivo turned off. Every five seconds or so, the green light on the front (but not the light behind the logo) and the TV screen would flash on for a fraction of a second, then turn off again. This has happened before, and what always fixed it was unplugging it for a little while and then plugging it back in. So I unplugged it and went to bed.

Tonight, I plugged it back in, and the same thing with the lights and screen flashing is still happening (though now it's the startup screen on the TV.) Anybody know what to do? I checked the Tivo site, and it wasn't very helpful. They had answers for what to do if the lights do turn on, and for if the lights don't turn on, but not for if they're flashing. I checked all the connections, and I tried pressing some buttons on the remote to see if that would do anything.

Ugh, Hil. I've never had a Tivo problem that couldn't be resolved by repeating Guided Setup, but that sounds more hardware-y than I've encountered before.

ION, does anyone else here use Netvibes? It was mentioned in Slate so I thought I'd check it out. Don't know how much I'll actually use it, but I like what I see so far. (And I'm oddly charmed that the default image search is the union jack. Do people with US IP addresses get stars & stripes?)