I just got the following email:

We are currently interviewing for a seventh grade English Language Arts position at E. N. White School in Holyoke, MA. If you are interested or know of anyone who may be interested, please contact me by August 9, 2007, at 413-534-2058 or 413-534-2057 or via e-mail...

I was tired of places like YouTube handing me tags to place flash files in my blog when they are not now (and never have been) part ofany HTML or XHTML standard. So, I took a look at how different browsers use tags to achieve the same thing. Then, I tested my results in Safari, Firefox, Opera,...

There are times when I feel that I live my life in the mode of an omniscient narrator. I watch the interactions of others and can see things that don’t seem to be immediately obvious to them.

This skill often came in handy as a teacher. It allowed me the latitude to orchestrate the classroom. A g...

It’s now official, Good Vibrations now includes Flash Blocking! It’s not perfect (nothing ever is), but as Safari heads toward v3-non-beta, this will only get better. A big thank you to everyone who has helped so far. All of the advice and bug reports have really helped. Keep it coming.

The big qu...

Thanks to a few bug reports, I found out that Good Vibrations blocked a lot of the Navigation content on YouTube. The latest beta takes care of that. It also blocks many flash-ads. So, check it out:

https://code.google.com/p/stevenjaycohen/downloads/list

There have been lots of changes to Good Vibrations this month. I have gotten reports of (and fixed) many site-related bugs. But, the thing that excites me most so far is flash-based ad blocking. You can test it out in the current beta:

https://code.google.com/p/stevenjaycohen/downloads/list

Oh,...

I found this code over at floppymoose:

/* Prevent flash animations from playing until you click on them. */    
object[classid$=":D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"],   
object[codebase*="swflash.cab"],    
object[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"],   
embed[type="application/x-shockwave-f...

I want to take a moment to thank everyone for submitting bug reports and fixes to Good Vibrations CSS. All of those fixes, including the ones for CNN and rottentomatoes, are in the current beta. You can download the beta here:

https://code.google.com/p/stevenjaycohen/downloads/list

I have be...

Find the YouTube video that best describes your day job. Don’t be literal, don’t explain, just post it!

If you have been on this site in recent weeks, you will have noticed that I have been playing with themes. This all began when some nice people pointed out that the Comment System seemed to be broken. I looked into it and found oodles of ajax conflicts.

Eventually, I decided to revert to a basic t...

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What better way is there to make your Surfin’ with Safari more enjoyable than sharing some Good Vibrations with your friends?

I don’t know about you dude, but all those ads on the web can really be a bummer!

— — *cough* *cough* — —

O...

new-chromiumI’ve messed with my Chromium theme on and off for a while now. And, here is what I came up with: since Apple is moving toward an iTunes 7 look, why not modify to match iTunes 7, but still hold onto the individuality of the different windows. Even though I am the guy who made Iridium (which started a...

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Safari is my default browser (on both Mac OSX and Windows, I use Konqueror when in Linux). So, I wanted to harness Safari’s built-in capacity to use Custom Style Sheets as an ad-blocking solution. After looking around on the web, I found...

Can’t we PLEASE have a story where David Tennant runs into the Brigadier? Nicholas Courtney isn’t getting any younger people!

Besides, setting up a real rivalry between UNIT and Torchwood would be a lot of fun to see. It would be like the X-Files meets Hunt for Red October 🙂

This link is good for 7 days and it connects to a wonderful monologue of a young woman coming to terms with herself by trying to figure out her mother’s world.