Five Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Students; Paragraphs Preperatory to Depth

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Converter: highlight text and right-click to convert units.
Leechblock: blocks your favorite time-wasting websites for time periods of your choice.
Nuke Anything Enhanced: save your ink - stop printing ads!
Research Word: highlight an unfamiliar term and right-click to query Wikipedia or other sites.
Zotero: magic research bookmarking / collation tool. Still trying to figure out how this one works.

Bonus: IE Tab: switch the tab of your choice from Firefox to Internet Explorer. Perfect for those backwards sites only compliant with IE.

I want to say somethng about when private or intended semi-private throughts become public speech (see also Jo Walton does not respond to a review and mamadeb misses the start of Yuletide signups*) but it comes down to me gossiping about which authors' public faces I like more.

*Nota Bene I am not inviting people to re-open associated political or/and religious discussions. I am commenting on the phenomenon of semiprivate LJs going semipublic, or being invaded by the masses. Anyone who wishes to discuss fascism, Jewish holidays and American culture, or topics related is welcome to do so in their LJ.

Final thought: if you put cop buddy flicks, horror movies, and action films into a blender, then set the blender on "comedy", Hot Fuzz is what you'd get out.

Comments

[meril.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think papersky meant to post that publically.

Besides, Stirling has shown up commenting on my friends' journals after they've reviewed his stuff. Of all the Famous People Surprise that could be possible on El Jay, his is not very surprising of a surprise. ^^;

[ase.livejournal.com]

I think she did, and she knows what she's getting into; note Rule 2. It's... I think it's her audacity in calling him out that intrigues me. I'm used to LJ conversations that make nice in public and get vicious under friendslock (which inevitably gets out, of course). Or conversations intended for a limited audience which attract unexpected commentators. Is papersky going with usenet convention here, or am I just making stuff up now?