Tony Snow

Friday was Scotty's last day as White House Press Secretary. Tony Snow starts "early this week".

My prediction? Tony Snow will turn out to be a disaster and will leave the role within 9 months. It will be viewed as "yet another Bush, Jr. bad idea".

LJ memes in the real world

You know what would be cool?

If each month we picked a sentence or phrase and everyone on LJ would try to work that phrase into conversation during the week. Then we could make a Frappr map of where we heard people say it.

I wonder how quickly we could get a phrase into the popular, non-LJ, world.

Who wants to create a LJ community? What would be a good name for it? How do we pick the first phrase?

Tom

"I like Jersey Best"

Someone found my post about trying to find the original The Phil Bernardi Band version of the song “I like Jersey Best” (I could only find jazz versions that changed it in strange ways, like doing one verse in a Bob Dylan voice, etc.).

The email was from Phil’s wife! Not only that, she attached a .WMA file of the original version that I had been looking for and told me what Phil’s been up to!

W00t!

(now how can I convert a WMA file to something that plays on my iPod?)

Dear Lazyweb: javascript edition

How do I execute some javascript and see the real output?

For example, if you look at this page you will see a text box in the middle of the screen. It's generated by calling the java script function "CAdrawbox('standard', '550')". If you check the source code in the browser you just see "CAdrawbox('standard', '550')". I want to see the HTML that the function output.

I've extracted the javascript to a file called foo.js but loading it into a browser just shows me the output (I believe).

Suggestions? I need to scrape this HTML (just once) for use on another project related to the website.