Useful Firefox extensions

(BYM) Blank Your Monitor + Easy Reading – Protects your eyes a little by turning the background of the webpages to black. You can easily de/activate it with the button in the statusbar.
No Squint – Simple and effective – set the zoom level of a page and it will remember it. Also, it brings back [...]

How to stop receiving stupid mails from friends

I find it’s a pretty elegant solution: reply them with a link to the http://www.thanksno.com/ page. They might understand AND be ok with it :)

90 to 95 percent of intelligence is of the animal kind. Only 2 to 5 percent is of the human kind.

“The reality is if you’re 20 percent better than other people, they envy you and try to kill you with nails and hammers. But if you’re 200 percent or 300 percent better, they’re just going to leave you alone. That’s us.” (Hideto Tomabechi)
A friend told me about this guy that increases breasts and deprograms cult [...]

We spend one third of our life in front of the computer

Here are some ways to make this part of your life better (from Cornell University Ergonomics Web):

Computer Workstation Tips Diagram
10 Tips for using a Computer Mouse
How to choose an Ergonomic Chair
10 tips for arranging a Computer Workstation and Keyboard
flexrest.com

See also: 21,000 days of self-improvement

ColorJack: Sphere

If not for learning a bit by playing, at least as a form of eyecandy :)…
(You might like to juggle the options, just a llittle :)
http://www.colorjack.com/sphere/ [works in Firefox]

The best are up to 28 times better than the worst – And how to be one of the best

It’s not just about programmers, but about excellence and mastery:
The apprentice learns the rules, the master, well, masters the rules, but the artist bends them. And in order to bend the rules, he needs to delve into their core, their source of freedomisation. (I know, yet another barbarism :)
softwarebyrob.com: Personality Traits of the Best Software [...]

Useful dictionaries

Onelook.com – The biggest, in the sense that it searches through LOTS of dictionaries and returns links to them. Great for, but in no way limited to, rare, specialized terms.
Dictionary.com – Offers on a single page definitions from multiple reliable dictionaries. I use it with the excellent FastDic Firefox extension.
Rhymezone, Thesaurus.com, [...]