8 Chrome extensions for web developers

Firebug is really the last must-have

slaughterhouse90210:

“By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.”
— Gustave Flaubert, A Dictionary of Idiocy

Nice piece of dataviz from couch and crew over at USA Today. Enter your salary and it will show you your tax bill (inflation adjusted even!) for the past 70 years. Even shows how national spending priorities have shifted over that time and what your share pays for. Really nice work.

The L5 remote is an IR dongle for your iPhone that turns it into a fully functioning remote

I use my old 1st gen iPhone as a media center remote and now I can finally get rid of the remote for my TV.

Immediately. I’m going to get in my horse and buggy and snail-mail a check for my newspaper subscription.

—Bill Watterson, responding to the question of how soon he’ll send a letter with the new postal service issued Calvin and Hobbes stamps. That’s why the man was the best in the biz.

Google drops support for IE 6, other older browsers

You’ll need to be running the second most recent version of any major browser to use apps like Google Docs

Teabaggers

Charges: America’s dumbest and most racist citizens finally found a cause they could all get behind that isn’t pro wrestling or NASCAR. The Lolcats of protest sign grammar, they think scare quotes actually make things scary (e.g. ‘Obama is a “communist”’). They don’t understand that they’re duped showpieces for billionaires who threaten their freedom and prosperity far more than their beloved nemesis, Big Gubmint. And their instant escalation from complacent couch potatoes to rhetorical revolutionaries just happened to coincide with the election of a black Democrat with the middle name Hussein. What are the chances?

Exhibit A: They called it Teabagging first.

Sentence: To star in an extremely patriotic, live ammunition reenactment the Battle of Bunker hill.

—The Beast’s 50 most loathsome Americans is back for 2009.

Saying I have a blog and am therefore more comfortable sharing photos of my kids is like saying that because I opened the front door for the UPS guy, I’m probably also cool with him secretly installing a webcam in my shower.

—Dave Pell, on the very excellent Tweetage Wasteland, a catalog of thoughts on the emerging social and real-time web, on why he never tells Zuckerberg anything. Great advice if you ask me.

chumblespuzz:

Dina Goldstein’s Fallen Princesses

_ Fallen Princesses _ places Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The “…happily ever after” is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.

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This pretty well sums up my entire frustration with the president’s “debate” with the Republican caucus (full video). I sort of expected that most of them would fire off a bunch of half-assed “are you still beating your wife” type questions, I didn’t think they’d burn up the whole hour doing so.

And while I’m at it, would someone please tell the Republicans that the proper adjective form of “Democrat” is, in fact, “Democratic”, as in “the Democratic party”. It’s not “the Democrat party” and snarling that slur does nothing more than make the user sound like a rube lacking a basic command of the english language. I realize that actually plays pretty well to the right-wing base but it’s your job to communicate, at least try to get the basics right.