I love the fact that in Firefox I can change the font size, even those set using pixels, by simply hitting Control-plus or Control-minus. Given the trend to use microscopic fonts because they look better when you’re putting a bunch of letters together to form words and such, the ole ctrl-+ is handy. The trouble in Firefox is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to reset fonts to their “normal” size.

Flickr is officially the coolest thing ever. I just spent a few minutes tinkering with the API and it’s dead simple to deal with. The list of photos typically over on the right there is generated from a Javascript call and it works pretty well. For fun I thought I’d try generating the list myself using PHP. The result (after about 10 whole minutes, which includes finding and reading the API docs) is displayed over there also, but below the others.

By “designer conversations” I mean conversations that a designer has on any typical day with any number of “other people.” Here is the Design by Fire post My favorite: “If you use that design, you’ll increase your boring quotient by 50%.”

I hate talking on my cellphone. There’s no way to hold it to my ear using my shoulder, like a normal phone. There’s no way I’m using one of those awful headsets. Well, I may have found the answer: POKIA, retro phone of the future

I’ve had a few people comment lately that I seem a little off. Not unhappy exactly, just a bit more off than usual. It’s almost as if the grumpy act I tend to put on is not as much an act as at was. I don’t feel crabby, but I suspect that I might just be a little crabby. To those affected by this, I apologize. It’s just a phase. I’m sure of it.

I love allrecipes.com. Find some recipes, add them to my “recipe box.” When I’m ready to shop I just add the recipes I want to my shopping list and print it. If anyone knows of other similar recipe sites I’d like to hear about them.

Boy, if I were an artsy counter-culture wannabe poseur with nothing better to do, I would definitely have gone to Burning Man. I probably just don’t get it. Yeah, that’s it.

Wouldn’t it be cool if Netflix could deliver rental movies directly from your queue to your TiVo? Seems both companies agree, and according to this msnbc article, that’s exactly what they plan to do.

Does anyone know why the “Ads by Google” text on many sites has suddenly stretched to “Ads by Goooooooooooogle”?

For much of the three grueling hours that is Dogville I wanted to rip director Lars von Trier’s heart out. I enjoy a good misanthropic anti-everything that is American gloom-fest as much as the next guy, but come on, enough already. But, it dared me to watch and I did. It was done cleverly (or at least interestingly) and on these levels it succeeded. Reluctantly, I recommend it.

I’m not a huge fan of fantasy novels, but if I ever decide to write one, this guide pretty much nails the entire process. Next thing our hero wakes on a white alabaster slab in the Healing Room where the Pure Maiden Warrior (see “Characters” below) tells him that the battle is over and, Guess what? They won! Result: you’ve saved 50 pages of intricate military description. For other difficult plot points such as Impassable Mountain Ranges see “Caves” below.

I see that the Glenmorangie distillery is for sale It would make a lovely Christmas gift.