I spent time this evening catching up on the latest entries at Leslie Harpold's harrumph!. From her site, I gathered a number of interesting, photo-related links. Enjoy.

• On September 11, 2003, take photos of your life to show the world that America is about things more beautiful and peaceful than the Patriot Act, invasions, and fear.
• 26 things: the international photographic scavenger hunt. Take one creative photo that illustrates each of the themes listed, and post them online. On August 1, return to the site and submit the url to your 26 things. If any of you UKAZU folk want to do this, I'll host your photos, just e-mail them to me.
• Lalaland collects thematically related photographs from photographers all over the place. Each month, there's a different theme. June submissions depict storefronts, and July is getting off the ground with images of urban textures. Gorgeous photography.
• And in case you get harrassed while taking interesting photos of your own, you can download and print "The Photographer's Right" a flyer that details the legal rights extended to photographers.

California Governor Gray Davis has pitifully low public approval, and the people are clamoring about a recall. The Republican front runner to replace the disgraced Democrat is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Breathe. Yeah, man, Mr. Universe wants to be Mr. California, and it's serious.

Why you should switch your web browser to Mozilla:

• Automatic PopUp Blocking: Hate the windows that spontaneously appear when you surf for naked ladies the New York Times? This stops 'em before they start. With a quick right-click, you can even block the servers that deliver advertising images to the sites you read.
• Tabbed Browsing: As you read UKAZU and find interesting links, you can open them in tabs that load in the background without disturbing your reading or cluttering your screen.
• Brilliant Bookmark Manager: Finally a well-behaved bookmark manager. It allows you to add, delete, edit, and organize in intuitive, flexible ways.
• Excellent Password Manager: Let the browser remember your passwords for the sites you want; delete stored passwords on a site-by-site basis.
• Sidebars: Search, bookmarks, weather, maps, news -- whatever you want -- loaded in the sidebar out of the way but within easy reach.
• Context-Menu Search: Find some words, select 'em with the mouse, right click, search Google.
• Better Standards Support: Mozilla chews code properly, so sites look prettier.
• IE is dead. Internet Explorer 6 will be the last standalone version of IE. The next browser from MS will be bundled in the Windows operating system. Windows won't get an update until 2005 at the earliest, and you'll have to upgrade Windows to get the browser. By that time, IE6 is gonna be one old-ass browser. How many of you can remember what the web looked like in 1998? Exactly.

Everybody's doing it. For a thorough walkthrough, read Haughey.

Update: There is a Googlebar for Mozilla.

Updated Update: After wasting the better part of a day digging, configuring, and tweaking, I've found my solution. Firebird 0.6 combined with Tabbrowser Extensions. I've provided screenshots of the configuration work I did, because making it do what I wanted wasn't particularly straightforward.

Exhibit A: The roommate's MGB. It got a paint job from the guy who did Herbie and the General.

He thought the UKAZU tribe could help with a personalized license plate. Current ideas include GR8 SHAG (cliche) and NOT PWRS. Ideas?

• Without contradiction: Philip Greenspan explains why affirmative action is bad, and the Post explains why the Supreme Court's decision was good.
• Geeky: how to help Google understand your website.
• Geekier: what the Free Software Foundation has to say about SCO's case against IBM. Related, tangentially: books about IBM, presented with a sprinkle of historical perspective.
• If you like the New York Times, it was a good weekend for you: 1984, Hillary's book, credit score tips, behavioral economics, soldiers' troubles in Iraq, and the changing views about online personals.

Beat 'em up till they're purple.

Me: "I didn't know deer ate tortillas."
James: "Oh sure, they'll eat anything you give 'em -- well, no, they won't eat cheese."

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