Epic Banality

Well, today I downloaded the beta of Safari 4 and in general I liked it. The cover flow style history was particularly cool. However, there are some things I didn’t like–mostly interface related. Here are some settings that can change things back to Safari 3 style things. (I’m not using all of these, just some.)

From the terminal, these commands will change things:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop 0

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFlowViewInBookmarksView 0

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFancyURLCompletionList 0

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeGoogleSuggest 0

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign 0

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle 0

I’m using the bottom two because I don’t like being forced to have a “add bookmark” button on my bar and I’m not loving the placement of the stop/reload button in the new setup. On top of that I like the blue progress loading thing.

So, are all you frothy-mouthed Obama supporters enjoying your dose of change and hope yet? I just wondered. I’m sure most of you still haven’t gotten the Kool-aid out of your systems, but it’ll happen eventually I suppose. (Of course, after 8 years of George W. Bush I guess it’s possible it won’t. Whatever.)

It’s hard for me to feel lied to by a politician since I know they’re all completely full of shit. Congressmen lie, senators lie, law enforcement at every level lies, judges lie and the president… well, he certainly wouldn’t be in office if he wasn’t the most skilled charlatan in the bunch! I know this. I go in to each and every day knowing this. When I read the news I know this and when I hear some idiot at a bar or at work or wherever tell me they like some guy that’s in office currently I know that this person probably has the intellect of a common baboon.

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