Folks lining up for rots. We’re an hour and a half early.
Monthly Archive for May, 2005
After reading this at o’reilly radar (isn’t that [Gary Burghoff's](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0121400/) character on mash?)
> Combining nostalgia for the oh-so-1994 http:// with a cool tip by pal Duncan for using the otherwise barely-functional RSS reader in the Safari browser, I now routinely type feed:// (or feed: for short) where the http:// should be (e.g. feed:news.bbc.co.uk) and jump straight to a nice Table of Contents for any site sporting an auto-discoverable RSS or Atom feed.
I use [bloglines](http://www.bloglines.com) for my rss reading , and use the bloglines bookmarklet to subscribe to feeds — it does a good job, usually, but I noticed that it doesn’t always autodetect a page that I know has a feed. In addition, Safari 2.0’s rss view is nice, but the bloglines bookmarklet doesn’t like the “feed://” url protocol.
So I tweaked the bloglines bookmarklet to change ‘feed’ to ‘http’, works like a champ:
safari-bloglines-it < drag it to your bookmarks bar
source:
`javascript:location.href=’http://www.bloglines.com/sub/’+(location.href.replace(’feed:’,'http:’))`
EDIT: Changed “feed” to “feed:” and “http” to “http:” just in case a url also contains the word feed in addition to the protocol handler.
I’ve been kinda lax on the blog here, but I just saw a great review for the new XBOX game I”ve been playing:
Forza Motorsport Xbox Review from 1UP.COM
An awesome tidbit that shows how realistic this game is:
> Here’s a true story: As an import-tuning wannabe, I recently caught the Honda S2000 bug and became curious about the drifting capabilities of this RWD roadster. …. But initial test drives of my new S2000 confounded expectations. Instead of being able to kick out my rear end on a dime, the S2000 understeered itself into the dirt on high-speed corners if I eased up on the throttle heading into the apex. Frankly, it was pissing me off and, if Forza couldn’t even capture the handling of a popular car like the S2000, I was ready to write it off as fatally inaccurate. That is, until I Googled-up “S2000″ and “understeer,” which lead me to a handful of real-life car reviews that mention the very same handling problem I experienced just hours earlier on my Xbox. I was stunned. Furthermore, I found a suspension tweaking guide (again, for the real-world car) that I was able to use and correct my S2000’s understeering problem. At that point, I became a true believer.