My Thursday becomes my Friday. Happy 4th of July!The Preppy Handbook.Because of some grade school and high school reunion activity I started remembering a bunch of stuff from those amazing times... and I had forgotten all about this classic book. I basically lived a lot of the contents of this mighty tome for over eight years... from mid-way through grade school all the way through prep school.I mi...

Jaromir Jagr peanut butterI've had this unopened jar of peanut butter since 1998. I have plenty of other stuff too from his days with the Penguins (a game-worn sweater he gave to me in the parking lot of then Civic Arena... complete with a little blood on it, autographs, etc.) I wonder if I could get anything for this peanut butter on eBay.[ UPDATE: found it online from a collector for $9.99.  Th...

Wouldn't this be cool in other versions of the player (what limitations of the various players would prohibit this method from being able to live with them?):gc()method public static function gc():voidLanguage Version : ActionScript 3.0Runtime Versions : AIR 1.0, Flash Player 9.0.115.0Forces the garbage collection process.For the Flash Player debugger version and AIR applications only. In an AI...

I plan on blowing my son's mind sometime this weekend. How? Crayola has come out with something they call 3D sidewalk chalk. You can check out the website to find more. So you draw on the driveway, and your drawing seems to float above the surface at various depths. How does it work? Well, the glasses are the key, not the chalk.The glasses use something called ChromaDepth to achieve the effect. Re...

I liked and used the Kuler 1.0 Desktop AIR client. Not often, but I enjoyed it when I did use it.I am completely not digging the 2.0 interface at all. The first version had this elegant eggy-shape to it, showing how applications could abandon system chrome for providing UI space display. Cool. The way 2.0 does this in my opinion is really ugly and harkens back to nasty old winamp skins from eight m...