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How To Make Firefox Faster

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:42:25 GMT

clipped by: AgonOruci

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

Tags: firefox, mozilla, browser, tweaks

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:52:29 GMT

clipped by: venushugstress
clipper's remarks: These are so awesome, I wish I could have been there to take the pictures myself!

Clip Source: treebeard31.wordpress.com

Hubble telescope’s top ten greatest space photographs

The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth

The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles

In third place is Nebula NGC 2392, called Eskimo because it looks like a face

face surrounded by a furry hood.

At four is the Cat’s Eye Nebula

The Hourglass Nebula, 8,000 light years away

In sixth place is the Cone Nebula. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in

years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon)

The Perfect Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away

Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting.

The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207

The Trifid Nebula. A ’stellar nursery’, 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born.

Tags: fascinating, art

Beautiful Pics

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:59:34 GMT

clipped by: RottnBullies

Clip Source: www.geocities.jp

Tags: pictures

25 Unexpectedly Useful Websites for the Uncommonly Curious

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:33:13 GMT

clipped by: philos

Clip Source: www.webupon.com

This eclectic list of websites contains so many out of the ordinary pleasures that it is hard to know where to start.

Guerrilla Mail

Chain of Thoughts

Ted

Wiki Travel

Fix It Club

Simple Help

Life Script

Full Books

Study Guides and Strategies

Meta Religion

Bibliomania

World Freedom Atlas

My Fit

How to Clean Anything

Dear Cupid

Help With PCs

Sclipo

Speed Test

Google Translate

Movie Duo

Foodio 54

Big Oven

Beer Advocate

Music Mesh

Live Plasma

Tags: web 2.0

YOU, You ANIMAL!

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:05:53 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: my.mmoabc.com

Tags: animals, funny, pics

Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:54:44 GMT

clipped by: Newfman
clipper's remarks: Descriptions of all 10 experiments at the site

Clip Source: www.spring.org.uk

"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?" --Philip Zimbardo

Like eminent social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo, I'm also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things. The answer quite often is because of other people - something social psychologists have comprehensively shown.

Over the past few months I've been describing 10 of the most influential social psychology studies. Each one tells a unique, insightful story relevant to all our lives, every day.

1. The Halo Effect: When Your Own Mind is a Mystery

2. How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance

3. War, Peace and the Role of Power in Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiment

4. Our Dark Hearts: The Stanford Prison Experiment

5. Just Following Orders? Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment

Tags: psychology

funny christmas pictures

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:50:56 GMT

clipped by: boozich
clipper's remarks: hohohohohohohohohohohoho!

Clip Source: muzich.blogspot.com

Christmas funny pictures!

Tags: christmas, xmas, funny, pics, pictures

What a Collection of Photography!

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:50:00 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: A few of these are even older than I am. Quite a collection of odd and interesting photographs.

Clip Source: widelec.org

Tags: photography, history, weird

Five Million People Annihilated: not news.

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:34:36 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: As ever, the government and mass media determine what we talk about.

Clip Source: munaeem.blog-city.com

"A human death toll that approaches the Nazi's annihilation of Jews in World War Two unfolds without a whiff of complaint from the superpower."

Possibly a quarter million people have lost their lives in Darfur, western Sudan, in ethnic conflict. The U.S. government screams its head off in denunciation of genocide, in this case. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as many as five million have died since 1994 in overlapping convulsions of ethnic and state-sponsored massacre. Not a word of reproach from Washington. A human death toll that approaches the Nazi's annihilation of Jews in World War Two - an ongoing holocaust - unfolds without a whiff of complaint from the superpower.

Why is

Congo unworthy of mention? The answer is simple: in Sudan, the U.S. has a geopolitical nemesis to confront: Arabs, and their Chinese business partners. In the Congo, it is U.S allies and European and American corporate interests that benefit from the slaughter.

Tags: congo, genocide, africa, news

Self-luminous material glows for 12 years

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:59:45 GMT

clipped by: deusdiabolus

Clip Source: www.treehugger.com

Litroenergy is a new type of material that emits light for 12 years without needing electricity or sun exposure. The self-luminous micro-particles are called Litrospheres and are said to be non-toxic and inexpensive. The light is said to be equivalent to a 20 watt incandescent bulb (lumens please?).

The litrospheres give off a continuous illumination, and can be designed to glow in any color. They can be injection molded or added to paint. The company that invented the material, MPK Co., predicts that first applications of Litroenergy will be in safety equipment such as safety tape and life rafts. Currently, the cost to light up a 8 ½ x 11 piece of plastic 1/8” thick is about .35 cents. Note: The press release says .35 cents but I think the figure is actually 35 cents.

More information can be found on this site.

Tags: light, luminesence, energy, conservation, technology

Having Sex without Gravity

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:25:47 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

US and Russian astronauts have had sex in space for separate research programmes on how human beings might survive years in orbit, according to a book published yesterday.

Pierre Kohler, a respected French scientific writer, says in The Final Mission: Mir, The Human Adventure that the subject is taboo both at Nasa and at mission control in Moscow, but that cosmic couplings have taken place.

"The issue of sex in space is a serious one," he says. "The experiments carried out so far relate to missions planned for married couples on the future International Space Station, the successor to Mir. Scientists need to know how far sexual relations are possible without gravity."

He cites a confidential Nasa report on a space shuttle mission in 1996. A project codenamed STS-XX was to explore sexual positions possible in a weightless atmosphere.

four positions were found possible without "mechanical assistance"

six needed a special elastic belt and inflatable tunnel, like an open-ended sleeping bag

Tags: sex, coitus without gravity

Shooting photos of nonexistent objects - an impressive set of images

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:32:54 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: 'Matt Stuart shoots photos from perspectives which create an illusion of objects and situations that don’t exist in reality.'

These are really interesting and a lot of fun visually to decode.

Clip Source: www.smashingmagazine.com

Can you shoot photos of things that don’t really exist? Matt Stuart is a professional photographer. He lives in England and is fascinated about people and the way they live their lives. But what is really interesting is that Matt shots photos from perspectives which create an illusion of objects and situations that don’t exist in reality.

Clip Source: alanocu.backpackit.com

Clip Source: www.smashingmagazine.com

In each photo Matt presents human life from unique perspectives, and thus tries to make an honest picture which people know immediately is a genuine moment and which hopefully burrows deep into their memories. The result is stunning: inspiring shots of the moments of our daily routine, however so brilliant in their precision that one simply can’t look away.

Clip Source: alanocu.backpackit.com

Tags: matt stuart, photos, photographer

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking - 6 Rules

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:10:40 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.csicop.org

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking

The six rules of evidential reasoning are my own distillation and simplification of the scientific method. To make it easier for students to remember these half-dozen guidelines, I've coined an acronym for them: Ignoring the vowels, the letters in the word "FiLCHeRS" stand for the rules of Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and Sufficiency. Apply these six rules to the evidence offered for any claim, I tell my students, and no one will ever be able to sneak up on you and steal your belief. You'll be filch-proof.

Falsifiability

It must be possible to conceive of evidence that would prove the claim false.

Logic

Any argument offered as evidence in support of any claim must be sound.

Comprehensiveness

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be exhaustive -- that is all of the available evidence must be considered.

Honesty

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be evaluated without self-deception.

Replicability

If the evidence for any claim is based upon an experimental result, or if the evidence offered in support of any claim could logically be explained as coincidental, then it is necessary for the evidence to be repeated in subsequent experiments or trials.

Sufficiency

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be adequate to establish the truth of that claim, with these stipulations:

the burden of proof for any claim rests on the claimant,
extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and
evidence based upon authority and/or testimony is always inadequate for any paranormal claim

James Lett

Tags: thinking, knowledge, skeptic, skepticism, logic, evidence, science, philosophy, falsifiability

Einstein on Buddhism

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:35:10 GMT

clipped by: venezolano

Clip Source: ravingatheists.com

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

Tags: quote

Christmas Carols for Disturbed Friends

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:45:03 GMT

clipped by: gingembre
clipper's remarks: I'm humming #8 as I write this...most disturbing

Clip Source: gingembresplace.blogspot.com

1. Schizophrenia -- Do I Hear What I Hear?
2. Multiple Personality Disorder - We Three Kings Disoriented Are
3. Dementia - I Think I'll Be Home For Christmas
4. Narcissistic - Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
5. Manic - Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and....
6. Paranoid - Santa Claus is Coming To Town To Get Me
7. Borderline Personality Disorder - Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire
8. Personality Disorder - You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, and I Don't Know Why
9. Attention Deficit Disorder - Silent Night, Holy oooh look at the Froggy - can I have a chocolate, why is France so far away?

10. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells.. .

(received in an email from a disturbed friend) :D

Tags: humor, christmas, holiday-related