http://www.kilobitspersecond.com A blog about Destroyer, foobar2000, and Last.fm. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:48:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I noticed a short while ago that the left margin on Google's search results pages seemed to have increased, and the logo's size decreased. I asked a friend if he'd noticed, and he said that he hadn't. I searched Google for 'google left margin,' turning up no results. Of ... http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/07/01/googles-left-margin-or-hey-twitters-good-for-something/ The squadron assembled what senses they had, and this is the sound that they heard: # @rmadriz Oh. Cool! in reply to rmadriz # http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/06/29/twitter-posts-week-of-2009-06-29/ Featuring a new icon (among other things). The release notes. The "What's New" page. http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/06/24/firefox-3-5-release-candidate-2/ "It's no longer square to keep your skin fair." # http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/06/22/twitter-posts-week-of-2009-06-22/ Wow, this is a strangely underhyped new feature of #WordPress 2.8: http://2tu.us/h6n # Best news I've heard all week: http://2tu.us/h7g # @cakexploder Re: http://2tu.us/hfc Not facetious; merely acknowledging that these attitudes are very real, whether we like it or not. # I am positively not getting a #Facebook URL. http://2tu.us/hjs # http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/06/15/twitter-posts-week-of-2009-06-15/ Fireworks shopping # @cakexploder http://fontfabric.com/?p=396 in reply to cakexploder # http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/06/08/twitter-posts-week-of-2009-06-08/ After complaining about alphabetization in music libraries for -- wow -- almost a year, I've decided it's time to do something about it. I know very little about JavaScript and XUL, but that is going to have to change. My goal is to complete the add-on described here, an Artist ... http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/05/27/building-a-songbird-add-on-part-0/ Frequently described as "Lovecraftian" or "Cthulhu-inspired," Zalgo actually bears a closer similarity to Shub-Niggurath or Yog-Sothoth, the latter described by Lovecraft as resembling protoplasmic flesh that flowed blackly outward to join together and form that eldritch, hideous horror from outer space, that spawn of the blankness of primal time, that tentacled ... http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/05/02/what-zalgo-is/ Does anybody else get these? When you navigate to your labels or subscriptions using keyboard shortcuts, the highlighted item in this modal window thing has a text "shadow" or duplicate sitting ten pixels over to the left. It's been bothering me for a while now and I can't ... http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/05/01/weird-text-shadows-on-google-reader-in-firefox-3135-betas/ One of the first things I noticed after booting into Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, is that Google Reader and Gmail looked a bit off. I quickly realized they were both using different sans-serif fonts than they had previously (Nimbus Sans), despite Firefox's preferences having Nimbus set as the default ... http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/04/24/liberation-the-new-arial-sans-serif-substitute-in-jaunty/