Interesting Links for 20-8-2011

[andrewducker]

• Women are rejecting marriage in Asia
  (tags: marriage asia)
• An addon for Firefox that submits forms in a new tab. Very useful if you want to fill out a poll, but keep reading the current page
  (tags: firefox forms)
• This is basically what would happen if I brought Julie herbal tea.
  (tags: tea funny comic)
• My favourite review of The Fringe so far: The Thinking Drinker's Guide To Alcohol
  (tags: alcohol comedy review)
• How Cold War major Harold Hering asked a forbidden question that cost him his career.
  (tags: ethics military history nuclear war)
• Woman demoted from manager to waitress - one week after she tells her boss she was pregnant.
  (tags: women uk work feminism)
• Tanning spray makes you look grey, and makes you horny.
  (tags: aphrodisiac tanning health weird)
• Google’s Official List of Bad Words
  (tags: google language words censorship)
• Polling reports on public opinion on the riots sentencing
  (tags: riots uk law)
• Scientists find cause of pre-eclampsia
  (tags: science childbirth health)
• The Inception Chair
  (tags: inception recursion chair art)
• Not Equal Enough - some photos of a wedding that I can't show you, because it would ruin their lives
  (tags: lgbt wedding usa)

Comments

[matgb]

Yay, someone finally fixed SubmitToTab so it works. A few days after I finally bit the bullet and switched to Chrome as the memory leak problem on this machine was getting silly.

It may be worth investigating a completely new profile on Fx and seeing how I do with that, I so miss that extension (not needed on DW, obviously, but on LJ it'll make me vote in polls again)

[andrewducker]

Yeah - I don't have any memory leak problems myself, at least so far as I can tell.

[matgb]

I need to develope the willpoaer to transfer all the essentials from my broken Fx profile into a completely new one, and see if that solves the problem. Running a completely new profile causes no problems at all, but I need at least some extensions to work, and Chrome has some of the features I need built in, plus the Task Manager is impressively useful for when a problem does happen.

[andrewducker]

I have multiple profiles on different machines anyway, so I'd mostly just have to reinstall some addons.

I assume you're synching your bookmarks, cookies, passwords, etc?

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

What dirty thing is "dirsa" a synonym for?

[andrewducker]

Context?

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

It's in the Google list of dirty words.

[andrewducker]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dirsa

Not sure what language that is...

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I wonder why that's the only foreign language dirty word on the list.

Also I find it fascinating that there is a language in which $ is a letter

[supergee.livejournal.com]

So I guess I can't join Google + as Dick Dirsa.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Would you want to before knowing what dirsa means?

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Good point.

[steer.livejournal.com]

It's not the only foreign example, buceta is a portuguese word for example

(I didn't know dirsa either and am still baffled).

heshe is a puzzling inclusion (I can only find it defined as a slang word for transexual).

Here's the stumper, they included doosh and duche but not douche which they are presumably misspellings of.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

"heshe" is considered a very offensive word in the transsexual community.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Ah... never come across it before despite having a few transsexual friends. Then again, I guess they wouldn't use it.

[steer.livejournal.com]

I am glad I'm not the only one who scanned the list to find words they didn't know.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

For me that's the point of a list like this!

[darkoshi]

It seems to be Latvian for "ass"/"asshole".

http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Latvian
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ass
http://www.lexilogos.com/english/latvian_dictionary.htm

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I keep getting e-mail offering Herbal Viagra. Now I know what it's good for.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

... Absolutely nothing?

No, wait, that's war.

[skington.livejournal.com]

On Safari for the Mac, holding down command when clicking a submit button submits the form in another page. Now, granted, this won't work if the web page uses javascript to submit the form, but it works for most cases.

[andrewducker]

Handy. I wish firefox did that by default.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Your links today made me sad.