University of Michigan Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate student.

2009

Safari Adblocker [∞]

Works with 64-bit Safari in Snow Leopard and automatically downloads blocklist updates.

Download Mail attachments to the Downloads folder [∞]

Mail.app on the Mac by default stores downloads at ~/Library/Mail Downloads when you double click on an attachment. I’d prefer to have them stored in my downloads folder at ~/Downloads. Running this script in the terminal accomplishes the task:

mV Library/Mail\ Downloads/* Downloads/;
mv Library/Mail\ Downloads/.* Downloads/;
cd Library;
rmdir Mail\ Downloads;
ln -s ../Downloads Mail\ Downloads
Paste unformatted text in Word 2008 [∞]

My number one pet peeve with Word is that you cannot set the program to paste text as unformatted by default. This handy tutorial enables you to assign Cmd-Alt-Shift-V to paste unformatted text, much like the iWork suite.

Netflix everywhere: sorry Cable, you’re history [∞]

Interesting article on Wired regarding the development of the Netflix Roku player and XBox 360 integration. I love my Roku box so far and hope Netflix has continued success in delivering streaming content.

The Facebook divorce [∞]

The problem is, Facebook is still a lawless frontier. (Though lawyers, particularly divorce lawyers, have come to view the site as an “evidentiary gold mine,” as a recent piece in Time magazine put it, and they regularly pan for nuggets in the opposing side’s pages.) There aren’t any definite principles, precepts or binding contracts between individuals, and its habitués are forced to improvise as they go along.

Florence, Hagar to turn Mill Valley’s El Paseo into rustic tavern [∞]

Rocker/restaurateur Sammy Hagar and celebrity chef/cookbook author Tyler Florence may seemingly have nothing in common other than their hometown, Mill Valley, and a love of good food.

But that’s all they needed to join together for a venture that celebrates both. Hagar, who turns 62 on Oct. 13, and Florence, 38, have just signed a lease to take over El Paseo, the uber-romantic ivy-covered brick restaurant at 17 Throckmorton Ave. that dates back to 1948.

Tiny porkers with a big price tag: £700 ‘micro-pigs’ are the latest celebrity pet craze [∞]

Who needs a puppy when you can get one of these?

Self-destructive behavior in cells may hold key to a longer life [∞]

Even if you enjoy a steady supply of food your entire life, you still rely on autophagy for another reason: to keep the molecules in your cells in good working order. Cells make a lot of defective molecules. They misread genes, for example, and misfold proteins. Even a perfectly crafted molecule does not stay perfect for long. “Proteins go bad with time,” Dr. Klionsky said. “They age, and they wear out.”

Animal Love? [∞]

If you have to get it on with an animal, this one is the closest to making it with a hot lady.

The dugong has been a running joke with my friends for months.

Kid Cannabis [∞]

How a chubby pizza-delivery boy from Idaho became a drug kingpin.