Google Toolbar for Firefox

yup, i couldn't resent using this to blog this. the tabbed browser integration is pretty nice. set the right options and there's no need to hit the new tab button before starting a search (especially since half the time i'm just using google as a spellchecker these days). and speaking of spellchecking, the integrated gmail/blogger style spellchecker is pretty kick ass. cheers. i do believe i'll replace the 3rd party extension with this one.

Skimboarding International - Source for Skimboarding Videos, Pictures and Related Media

fun collection of random movie clips. current highlights include boxing cats, banging stuffed anmials and drowning drivers.

Northern Lite

them germans, never know what they're gonna cook up next.

BBC NEWS | England | London | Eyewitnesses tell of travel hell

At least 33 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a series of explosions on the London Underground network and a bus in central London.

del.icio.us DVD Archive

http://del.icio.us/DevineSolynDVDs

We went through and catalogued all our DVDs while in the process of re-organizing our shelves to make room for inventory rescued from a dying spa. Cybil typed them into Excel, but that didn't let us do anything but alphabetize. I wanted so much more functionality and information: year, plot summaries, director, cast, but most of all tags. I wanted to be able to filter our collection based on the genre of movie that I'm in the mood to watch.

I've actually been thinking about this for a while, trying to decide if I could justify writing a little database app, or if there was something out there already that I could use for this purpose. And there is. By using del.icio.us to bookmark the imdb.com page for each of our movies not only do I automatically have easy access to lots of data on every movie, but I also have the ability to easily tag them all with multiple genres. I can then filter them by one or more tags, and search by title and plot summary.

Next I need to go back through and add tags that I've thought of since finishing the initial input. TV is one. "(TV)" appears in most of the television show titles, but it really needs to be a tag. I'm also thinking of tagging them with directors, producing, and maybe even actors. I've also got a few "Nils" labels, things that I'm often in the mood to watch. These new labels will be "kicking" and "nakedness." I might add some others if I think of it, but violence and nudity usually cover most of my movie watching desires.