This is a useful little tip for people who don’t want to have a ‘close tab’ button on each of their Firefox 2.0 tabs (I for one think they’re just unnecessary clutter).

“In your about:config, add an integer, call it “browser.tabs.closeButtons” (no quotes), and set it to 0 for FF1.5 behavior (a single close button) or 2 to get rid of them completely. #

UPDATE: Alternatively, set the integer to 3 to use the v1.x system of having one close button on the far right of the tab bar. #

First Ever World Map of Happiness Produced - A University of Leicester psychologist has produced the first ever ‘world map of happiness.’

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously in favor of a plan to provide universal health insurance for San Franciscans. Officials are still working out the details, and the Chamber of Commerce predicts a court fight because businesses that do not provide health coverage would be required to help fund it.

These are our Titanium wedding rings. Mine is the large flat one, Laura’s is the small ridged ring. This photograph was taken inside the ‘CrapShack’, my zero-cost light tent project. In retrospect I should have polished them up a bit. Click here to see a high-resolution version of the image.

These photo are of my tiny Orange County Choppers POW/MIA chopper model, used as a test subject for my zero-cost light tent project, otherwise known as the CrapShack­™. Click each image to see the high-resolution versions.

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The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison

The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison contains hundreds of unearthed artifacts written by history’s most infamous personalities and has been tirelessly compiled and edited by W.O.M.P. scholar and historian, Paul Davidson.

“Generally speaking, blogs are presented in reverse chronological order - that is, the newest, freshest content is presented first. Unfortunately, this setup is speeding towards antiquity.” (Pearsonified)

Really interesting article about restructuring your blog/site in order to draw attention to your best content.

“”Flash animations are an obvious, yet stellar, example of what users hate in a Web site; the skip intro button is the most used button on the Internet.”

What users hate most about Web sites: Ironically for an article about annoying web design, the first point about invasive advertising is demonstrated quite well by the abundance of crap strewn all over InfoWorld’s site.