Some ideas for political Halloween costumes:
Update 2004-10-30: Other people came up with funnier ideas for political Halloween costumes and illustrated them:
Search Keys lets you go to search results by pressing the number of the search result instead of clicking. You can press 1 to go to the first result, Shift+2 to open the second result in a new window, etc. It works with Google, Google News, Google Groups, Google Desktop Search, and del.icio.us.
Update Oct 16, 2004: The shortcut for opening in a new tab is now Alt+N on Windows and Mac, to avoid conflicting with the Ctrl+N shortcut for switching tabs. It is still Ctrl+N on Linux, which uses Alt+N for switching tabs.
The Starcraft flyer I photographed and blogged made its way to a site called StartcraftGamers. The site has an article about the flyer and the associated research.
Some of Bush's mistakes:
| 0:06:10 | "Do you believe the election of Senator Kerry on November the 2nd would increase the chances of the U.S. being hit by another 9/11-type terrorist attack?" "No, I don't believe it's going to happen. I believe I'm going to win." |
| 0:07:55 | "The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously." |
| 0:14:20 | "Of course we're after Saddam Hussein -- I mean bin Laden." |
| 0:15:44 | Bush tries to pound on the podium. |
| 0:30:57 | "What's he say to Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland?" |
| 0:32:37 | "Well, actually, he forgot Poland." |
| 0:40:25 | "Let me finish" (who was interrupting him?) |
| 0:42:20 | "You know, it's hard work to try to love her as best as I can" |
| 0:45:35 | Bush interrupts Kerry. Lehrer lets Bush respond, but Bush pauses for five seconds and then babbles about mixed messages. |
| 0:52:00 | In response to a question about Iraq: "the enemy attacked us, Jim". (Kerry called him on it.) |
| 1:10:35 | "You cannot lead if you send mexed missages." (How are the Capitol Steps going to make fun of this spoonerism?) |
| 1:11:55 | Referring to his daughters: "I'm trying to put a leash on them." (Kerry called him on it: "Well, I know. I've learned not to do that.") |
| several times | Being the president is hard work. |
Some of Kerry's mistakes:
| 0:37:00 | "United States, the America and Great Britain" |
| 0:57:15 | "Global test". (Bush called him on it.) |
| 0:58:00 | "Iran and Iraq are now more dangerous -- Iran and North Korea are now more dangerous." |
The times refer to the Washington Post's Real stream, which I watched using Real Alternative and Gebest's Media Player Classic. Political Animal: Clip Contest, commenters on Daily Kos, and georgewbush.com caught some mistakes I might have missed otherwise. I copied some quotes from the MSNBC/FDCH transcript of the debate.
I saw this flyer shortly after starting at UCSD.
sensemann made this graph. Check his thread for the latest version of the graph.
Google recently introduced a mode called "Browse By Name", a cross between "I'm Feeling Lucky" and a normal Google search. "Browse By Name" acts like "I'm Feeling Lucky" if Google is certain that the first hit is correct, but otherwise returns a normal set of search results. If you use Internet Explorer with the Google Toolbar, "Browse By Name" is the default behavior for non-URLs typed into the address bar. The Google Toolbar shows a dialog the first time you use the feature.
By default, Firefox uses "I'm Feeling Lucky" for non-URLs typed into its address bar. You can change the behavior by going to about:config and setting keyword.URL to the appropriate URL and then restarting Firefox.
| Address bar behavior | keyword.URL |
|---|---|
| I'm Feeling Lucky | http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&btnI=&q= |
| Browse By Name | http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= |
| Google search | http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q= |
Tired of clicking hundreds of text links in TGPs just to get to the 10% of galleries with the good stuff? Thumbs shows the first thumbnail from each linked gallery, so you can just middle-click the ones you want.
