WideFox

I saw a post on lifehacker yesterday about widefox. It is a configuration of Firefox using  the TabMixPlus extension and a custom userChrome.css file, that puts the tabs labels down the right or left side of the browser. If you have a wide screen. This is a much more efficient use of screen real estate. [...]

The Map that Changed the World

I have become fascinated by European intellectual history from the seventeenth and eighteen centuries. The sciences were flourishing. The modern economic system was just developing. My latest read falls into the end of this period and actually extends into the nineteenth century. It is The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester. It [...]