17 August, 2010

Xtranormal: for the increasing need to say something, via an animated/avatar/de-humanized voice.

http://www.xtranormal.com

For example, a discussion on the gender politics intricacies of "Michfest," the annual, all-womyn music festival, and their trans- admittance policy (Created by Amita Swadhin):

Nerd Alert: Context Highlight - Awesomely Useful Add-on for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/239/
Allows you to quickly and easily highlight all instances of a word or phrase within the current page. Simply select the text you want, right click and choose "highlight"...
A good workaround for a "multiple-find word" option, provided that you can already find one instance of the word(s) you're looking for on the page.  Holding Ctrl- while selecting "Highlight Word" from the context menu allows for multiple, highlighted words, à la Google Cache.