Finally bumped to firefox 1.5 beta and predictably lost a lot of extensions. I knew this was just a conservative compatibility mechanism, and not real breakage, but wasn’t immediately sure how to work around it. This post is a particularly clear presentation of what’s going on and how to fix it. The comment stream mentions another extension that simply does a workaround (for all extensions) without showing any details.
Here’s an amazing feat of the hands and brain: this guy transformed the Paris métro ticket into an X-wing fighter. (via BoingBoing)
BoingBoing has frequent posts on papercraft. After seeing Le Chateau Ambulant, I was wanting a related activity to do with my daughter … and saw this castle papercraft project (free! well, uh, … ink). We started together, she would cut out some of the simple parts, but now she “really likes to watch.” We’re about halfway through, page 14 I think. It’s amazingly time-consuming. All the instructions are in Japanese, but no problems so far.
I don’t think I ever heard about papercraft before the BB posts. It’s strangely attractive, it’s concrete and physical, it forces me to slow down and it doesn’t involve a keyboard.