Day: July 11, 2006

Firefox Extended Statusbar Add-On

Back when FireFox 1.0 was release I complained that the developers had eliminated one of my favorite features — statistics in the status bar that would tell you, among other things, how long it took for the page you were visiting to load. It was removed supposedly because normal users don’t care about that sort of thing, but more likely the developers didn’t want users citing the numbers as proof that Firebird/Firefox was slower than IE.

Anyway, there is an extension for Firefox, Extended Statusbar, which displays a number of statistics in the statusbar including load time, total bytes downloaded, number of images loaded, etc.

Maps of Religious Belief/Membership in United States

As part of his American Ethnic Geography courser, Valparaiso professor Jon Kilpinen has posted a gallery of maps that show how religious belief/church membership is distributed across the United States. The data is taken from the Glenmary Research Center’s Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States, 2000.

The Star Trek/X-Men Crossover

I can’t believe I’d never run into this before, but I was browsing at a bookstore the other day when I ran across Planet X which — and I’m not making this up — is a Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men Crossover. From the Amazon.Com description,

On the planet Xhaldia, ordinary men and women are mutating into bizarre creatures with extraordinary powers. But is this a momentous evolutionary leap or an unparalleled catastrophe? The very fabric of Xhaldian society is threatened as fear and prejudice divide the transformed from their own kin.

Dispatched to cope with the growing crisis, Captain Picard and the crew of the

Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ receive some unexpected visitors from another reality — in the form of the group of mutant heroes known as the uncanny X-Men®. Storm, leader of the X-Men, offers their help in resolving a situation that is agonizingly similar to the human/mutant conflicts of their own time and space.

Interesting. Would have been better with TOS, though.