Okay, so I finally have seen the light and realized, yes, I should have been using Firefox as my browser lo these many years.

Now that I AM, I figured my friendslist was the best place to ask about all the wonderful Firefox extensions and add-ons that you cannot possibly live without, and that I should be using myself.

Helllllp!

"Before this game started, Kilmer said, '48 minutes for the next 48 years of our lives.' I say, fuck that. Fuck that. Let's go out there and we'll play the next 24 minutes for the next 24 minutes. And we'll leave it all out there on the field. We have the rest of our lives to be mediocre, but we have the opportunity to play like Gods for the next ( Read more... )

I don't care how many times I've seen it, or how fictionalized the moment is, this bit in the movie "Miracle" always gives me chills:

Mike Eruzione: Mike Eruzione! Winthrop, Massachusettes!
Herb Brooks: Who do you play for?
Mike Eruzione: I play for the United States of America!

So, as you may have noticed, there's this Broadway show that I'm just a little fond of (ahem!), which, by the way, is closing in just about five weeks, and I'm very sad about that. But! This past Monday night the kids of Spring Awakening (and oh man, are they kids... the youngest cast members have just turned 17!) got together and put on a benefit ( Read more... )

TVSquad.com analyzes a very important question --- "Is Twilight really just a poor-man's Roswell?

Oh, the memories...

http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/12/02/twilight-vs-roswell-are-aliens-more-romantic-than-vampires/

It's kind of a long story, that involves me being sick and stuck in bed for three days and needing something to read that wouldn't at all tax my brain, but the short version is that I seem to be reading the Twilight series. At least, I've finished the first book and am slogging my way through the second. I may even go see the damn movie just for ( Read more... )

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I'm pretty surprised if I'm the first person to break this, but I haven't seen any chatter about it on my friendslist.

Civil servant charged over 'obscene' Girls Aloud blog -
A civil servant has been charged by police for allegedly writing a blog about the kidnap and murder of members of the pop band Girls Aloud.Granted, he's being prosecuted ( Read more... )

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In the category of, "He just said it way better than I could," I'm copying and pasting this straight from a friend's LJ, with his permission. - Liz

Why you need to pay attention to the current Wall Street messAnyone who has read even just the headlines over the last week or so knows that the Bush Administration is proposing a somewhat panicked 700 ( Read more... )