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June 13, 2007
Apple Safari
Apple has released a beta of Safari (their Internet browser) for Windows.
I installed it an had a problem with textless web pages. The problem is described and a solution offered by these folks.
It worked for me.
So far haven't had a chance to use Safari aside from one quick test. I aimed Firefox and Safari toward www.tednugent.com and, using my wristwatch, timed how long it took the page to load.
Both browsers had Stranglehold playing in about the same amount of time and I have to believe that if you were even the slightest bit buzzed and aching to hear some Ted that you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between one browser or the other.
Here I come again now bay-beee
Like a dog in heat.
Doesn't that just speak to you?
How about,
That Nadine, what a teenage queen
She lookin' so clean, especi'lly down in between; what I like
(Oh baby)
Wang dang sweet ...
The man should be poet laureate.
Before signing off for the evening I'd like to mention that just the other day, and I mean like three or four days ago, I was wondering if a guy threw himself on a grenade could he really save his buddies. It must have been the night I was watching Combat on TV — it seems I recalled an episode where some guys were in a bunker and the Germans threw a grenade in on them. The guys knew if they threw the grenade back out the Germans would know they were in there and then machine gun them or something. Of course, if the grenade went off they'd all die anyway. One of the guys (not Vic Morrow) threw himself on the grenade, it exploded, he's killed but his buddies live.
Tonight on Myth Busters they are testing the "myth" using a ballistics-gel dummy.
For the record, I didn't think a guy throwing himself on a grenade would save anybody. I figured the body didn't have enough mass to stop the shrapnel.
Without going into all the details, it looks like a person throwing his body on a grenade does slow the shrapnel enough to give his buddies a better chance.
Of course, the ballistics-gel dummy was blown to hell on Myth Busters. On Combat (or whatever it was) the explosion was represented by a something that looked like a fart under the actor's (not Rick Jason's) chest.
The Myth Busters also blow up a fridge with a grenade. That must have been something that got from the Combat DVD Collection's deleted scenes. I'm pretty sure that never happened in the show.
Posted by delmer at June 13, 2007 10:51 PM