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Brent

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The Peanuts gang gets violent (AOL TV)

Aug 17th 2006 11:58PM FYI, this is a parody of: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (imdb).

Angel: She (AOL TV)

Aug 17th 2006 2:01PM Also, the actual in-episode scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKhbzMQR-_A

RAR Host: Free hosting just for RAR files (Download Squad)

Aug 17th 2006 1:42PM I don't know anyone how knows what a RAR file is, that hasn't learned it through piracy. Nice target-market. I'm sure that wont lead to any problems.

TV Squad Poll: The new FOX shows (AOL TV)

Aug 10th 2006 6:38PM Definitely 'none of the above'

The Office Webisodes -- Number 4: Stanley (AOL TV)

Jul 28th 2006 2:07AM Here's a link for the webisode (lacking from the post):

http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/nbc_off_web_104_20060726.shtml

Aptana offers a nice web IDE (Download Squad)

Jul 27th 2006 12:29PM It appears as though Aptana is just piggy backing on the Eclipse IDE platform ( http://www.eclipse.org/ ). Not that there's anything wrong with that.

The framework Eclipse provides is a little... strange, and the end-user documentation for the base IDE could use a lot of work (I've still yet to figure out what the difference between a 'Perspective' and a 'View' are; and toolbar customization is... largely a mess), but I've been using Eclipse+PHPEclipse ( http://phpeclipse.de/ ) for a while and more recently Eclipse+Zend's own PHP-IDE ( http://www.zend.com/phpide/ ). They both work far better than the old standard-text-editors I was using before this.

The best part of the Eclipse platform is that you can add on components and they all work fairly seamlessly together. So you can easily add Subversion support just by adding the Subclipse project, and now your Javascript IDE, or PHP IDE, has subversion support.

You should also be able to seamlessly switch between your customized Javascript setup and you PHP setup without having to open a different application.

Anyways, good for Aptana, but I wanted to give some recognition to the Eclipse project. :)

Stop Word 2007 from adding space between lines (Download Squad)

Jul 19th 2006 10:37AM Definitely agree with Meter, here... It seems "Space After Paragraph" setting would only create a double-spaced look for a paragraph if the user was hard-breaking every-line of the paragraph (hitting enter at the end of each line, rather than letting Word word-wrap the paragraph itself).

Having done some desktop publishing, it makes much more sense to have paragraph styles define the spacing between your paragraphs, rather than two hard-breaks at the end of each paragraph. This way the layout editor can easily switch the style of the document from single-line spacing to no spacing with first-line indent, or any other spacing.

Jamie Kennedy blows up this Tuesday (AOL TV)

May 12th 2006 11:37PM Kennedy: Dude, you've been "X"ed!
Dude: ??
Kenndy: You're on my new hidden camera show!
Dude: Oh...
Kennedy: "X"ed!!!!
Dude: ...o...k...

David Blaine gets wet (AOL TV)

Apr 17th 2006 12:15AM I can't see magicians anymore without humming The Final Countdown