Furth and Fortune blog by Will Murray

I wrote a new post on Allogro titled “Vista Quick Launch icon locations change after restart“. It explains how to fix a problem where the icons in my Quick Launch toolbar in Windows Vista were rearranged into alphabetical order after every restart and the toolbar was resized, taking up most of the Taskbar. This fixes a similar problem in Windows XP, too.

Tags: Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Discover Magazine has an article that is really mind-blowing. While reading it, I think several Keanu Reeves-esque “Whoa!”s escaped my lips. The article, “Newsflash: Time May Not Exist” scratches the surface on the interesting concept that time may be an illusion, or rather, it’s an effect, not a cause.

I especially liked the illustration of time being like the surface of water. At an atomic level, there really isn’t a “surface”, and at a sub-Planck level, there really isn’t any “time”. It’s only something that can be observed from a larger, or “macroscopic” scale. Oh, just go read the article; it explains things much better than I can. And let me know if your own mind was blown away, too!

Tags: discoveries, Einstein, mathematics, physics, Planck, quantum physics, science, time

Eating a bag of freshly popped, buttery popcorn while watching a movie on demand or DVD is a guilty pleasure of mine. You have to be careful though about the type of popcorn you use though. I’ve tried a variety of different methods, brands, and flavors, and I’ve settled on Act II butter flavor as my favorite microwave popcorn (the plain butter flavor, not the extreme or movie theatre style—and no, I’m not worried about the deadly butter flavoring). Compared to the other popcorn out there, it seems to be about the best in ingredients and nutritional value, and it only takes 2:35 to pop. Easy.

I was a little concerned when I opened up the last two boxes of popcorn and found that the buttery goodness inside of some of the packages had leaked out into the plastic wrapper. The two 12-pack boxes were purchased at different times (December 2007 and January 2008), but from the same Wal-Mart store #3652 in West Sacramento. In each box, one of the bags was unusable—the buttery goo had spread all over the outside of the packages. Even if they were safe to eat, I’d hate to clean the microwave after that stuff melted inside it. The other bags where oozing had occurred were only slightly oily, and they tasted and smelled fine.

Tags: Act II, butter flavor, consumer alerts, defects, microwaves, popcorn

This video titled “What song is this?” seemed appropriate this month at the start of a new year, an election period in our country, and on a national holiday weekend.

Liked that? OneManSho has more. In the next one, he performs “200 Impressions” of people and animated characters:

Tags: art, design, foods, impressions, music, OneManSho, patriotic, videos, YouTube

Phocks’ “Confession the second: The Liar” was a little hard to follow at first, but after reading the surprise twist ending, I read the whole thing through again and totally got it. I wonder if there is any truth to it, or if it’s all a lie?

Tags: blogs, literature, politics, writing