The three little fishies didn't wanna be bossed

[austin_dern]

You know it's going to be a good day when the front page of the newspaper, three columns, above the fold, is about fish. The subhead for ``Fishy Apron'' in The Straits Times reads: ``Swishing noise under skirt gives away woman who tries to smuggle fish into Melbourne.'' This is accompanied by a wonderful photograph captioned ``Unusual Underwear,'' which looks like long underwear turned inside-out, with a bunch of pockets sewn in, each pocket stuffed with multiple plastic bags with water and, I assume, fish inside. The swishing noises prompted an inspection which discovered the 51 catfish swimming around in the 15 plastic bags.

This is the sort of thing that makes you wish Bob Newhart were still recording new comedy albums. ``Welcome back to Australia, ma'am ... uh ... did you just splash? ... Uhhuh ... uh, ma'am, your skirt is twitching ... Ma'am, as part of customs procedures we have a number of trained animals which use their sense of smell to draw our attention to contraband ... so, rubbing your feet are a pair of our trained cats.''

Nobody on my friends list seems to have noticed the red-letter day for Mac users yesterday -- iCab version 3.0 Beta was finally released. This is the happy and extremely customizable web browser that includes essential features like a little frowny face whenever a web page has invalid HTML, and a smiley face for both of the web pages that have standards-compliant code.

Trivia: To get a position in the art department of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, the young Max Fleischer, future animation great, offered to pay them two dollars per week. Source: The Fleischer Story, Leslie Cabarga.

Currently Reading: Toyman, E C Tubb.

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Well, I admit, I do keep iCab 2.9.7 on Ocelot.. for quite a while, iCab was my primary browser, as it outshone Netscrape by a few orders of magnitude, and its exhaustive configurability (letting individual sites have different aspects of javascript availability, blocking images by any arbitrary list of sizes, and so on). And then OmniWeb came knocking on my door..

the young Max Fleischer, future animation great, offered to pay them two dollars per week

.. which immediately reminded me of a recent posting (http://www.livejournal.com/users/xydexx/476581.html) by xydexx. Would that all talent fuelled dedication.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Alas, the new iCab still doesn't work with my online bank, so I'll have to retain Safari use for a while yet. I short of shifted over to Safari for a lot of stuff because iCab 2.9.7 or whatever crashed or froze a lot on Livejournal replies. I think it was a style sheet hassle. The revision is still slow -- none of it's optimized yet -- but it's looking good.

Happily, Max Fleischer didn't have to pay for his job, although his determination got the Eagle management to give him a spot as a stock boy. He did worm his way into the art department, though, and became a cartoonist. For a while was even art editor of Popular Science Monthly.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

oooo... eagle management you say? :9

Thanks for the heads up about iCab 3.... yay!
I have stuck with 2.9.1 for a long whole, since that crashed very rarely, and the later ones didn't seem as stable when I tested themm on another machine.
If 3 can do css and javascript stuff better, this is gonna be awwwwesome! (cuz I like it even as it is.. lean, fast, and stable)

*winghugs!*

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Yeah, though the Brooklyn Daily Eagle went out of business a while ago ... I don't know if there've been any revival attempts.

iCab 3 seems to do better with CSS and some Javascript things, although I had some weird problems looking at a huge file (the MiSTing of the Stephen Ratliff epic ``Royal and Prime Directives''), so it may need a bit of optimizing and tweaking just yet. And as above it doesn't talk to my bank yet.