Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-23-2010

[andrewducker]

• How Does Homeopathy Work? A simple explanation.
  (tags: healthcare homeopathy skepticism)
• Microsoft release their new "Choose what browser you want to run" page.
  I like the way that the options change order randomly each time.
  (tags: browsers microsoft windows)

Comments

[andrewducker]

I'm deducting three geek points.

I'd heard of Flock, and I used K-Meleon before Firefox appeared.

SlimBrowser, Maxthon, Avant and Maxthon are all Internet Explorer with a different shell around them.

Flock is Firefoz with stuff on top. K-Meleon is Firefox with stuff taken out.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

K-Meleon annoys me by being one of those wacky misspelt names that I associate with US businesses. It was months before the penny dropped and I realized the intention is for it to be 'Chameleon'; when clearly it is named Kay Melly-on, presumably in tribute to jazz musician George Melly.

[andrewducker]

Did it also take you a while to spot the joke in "Central Perk"?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I spotted it a fair while before Phoebe did, which isn't saying much. But that's different!

[darkoshi]

Oh, chameleon; I didn't realize that was what the name was based on. I thought it was a strange name, which happened to make me think of melons.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

My point exactly!

I think the thing with all these wacky names is that they are geared to a US accent, or at least an understanding of the rules. Apache Solr, for instance, is just 'Soller' to me (at a push), and never 'Solar' -- probably works on the postvocalic 'r' those hick statesians use...

[andrewducker]

I guess I'm used to shortened words from years of 8-character file names. I happily fill in vowels and search for appropriate words.