Indistinguishable from Jesse

I hate my alarm clock.

I love Southwest Airlines.

Keepers of Lists rejected this list I wrote, so I'm posting it here (without yay/nay voting, unfortunately).

1. They're not with us, so they must be against us.
2. Once we control Geneva, we can modify the Geneva Convention.
3. When was the last time Switzerland won a war?
4. To see how long they remain neutral.
5. They refuse to refund us for the holes in their cheese.
6. Zurich and Geneva recognize gay marriage.
7. Four percent of Switzerland is muslim.
8. To freeze (and take) ill-gotten funds in Swiss bank accounts.
9. Their army keeps supplying small knives to terrorists.
10. To send a message to all the other "neutral" countries.
11. They would never expect it.
12. Easiest way to go to war with the entire rest of the world.
13. Retaliation for tricking us into signing the Geneva Convention after WWI.
14. To sieze control of lucrative domain names such as getri.ch and coo.ch.

Yesterday, Opera Software simultaneously released Opera 8.50 and made the ad-free version of the browser free of charge. Making the browser free should increase Opera's marketshare, forcing web site owners to take Opera more seriously.

Opera 8.50 also introduces Browser JavaScript, a set of compatibility hacks for a small number of web sites and popular scripts. Microsoft has used this strategy successfully for operating system upgrades, and it will be interesting to see how well it works for Opera. Like Firefox, Opera already has a quirks mode and encourages users to contact broken sites. One potential drawback of including Browser JavaScript is that web site owners might expect Opera to fix incompatibilities that they would otherwise fix themselves.

Opera users who liked the site-targeted Google ads should not continue using Opera 8.0x because it contains known security holes, but they are invited to switch to Firefox and install Adbar.

A high-level changelog for Opera 8.50 is available.

Mike Connor's cat is a natrual fuzz tester.

This letter was rubber-banded to my doorknob:

Dear Residents:

Thank you for your payment. We realize sometimes things can be over looked, however our records indicate that you have underpaid your account by $0.01. Please remit the amount due within 3 days in form of personal check(s) or money order(s).

[...]

Please feel free to contact me at  with any questions regarding your balance.
Your immediate attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
[...]
Accounts Administrator

I went to the rental office, found the accounts administrator, and said "Apparently I owe you one cent. I don't know why, but here's a penny". He wouldn't take my penny; the payment had to be in the form of a check or money order. He looked at my account record and determined that I owned them a cent because when I first moved in, they made a rounding error and asked me for the wrong amount for my first (pro-rated) month's rent. He said they had to ask me to pay the cent I owed because of fair housing laws -- if they didn't ask me to pay the cent I owed, they couldn't ask other residents to pay money they owed.

I added a cent to my next month's rent check.

The Endless Forum Pages user script makes phpBB forum pages infinitely long instead of limited to 15 posts per page. It loads the next page into a hidden iframe when you scroll to near the bottom of the page, and then it moves the posts from the iframe into the main page when the iframe finishes loading. If you hate clicking the tiny "Next" link on MozillaZine Forums topic pages (example) as much as I do, please try this script.

If you use this script, it is best to scroll using pgup/pgdn. If you scroll by dragging the scrollbar, your position will jump when the page gets longer.

Using this script shouldn't affect the load on forum servers much, because it only activates when you scroll to near the bottom of the page, which indicates that you're likely to continue reading.

This script works at MozillaZine Forums and The Blue Gryphon. You can try using it with other phpBB forums using Greasemonkey's "included pages" feature. Don't expect it to work at all phpBB forums, though, because phpBB forums are often customized a lot and the script is somewhat fragile.

Given that I like Cranium Hoopla, Taboo, Telephone pictionary, Boggle, Clever Endeavor, and Apples to Apples, what other party games should I try?

I got into accessibility when I saw a deaf blind man able to run his own business, because of braille display technology. I thought that was the best use of technology I had ever seen.

-- Aaron Leventhal, Mozilla accessibility engineer (in #firefox on irc.mozilla.org).

Aaron goes into more detail about how he got interested in accessibility in this interview.