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House of Lies – (2012 show)

2015-12-31

dead, disliked, Don Cheadle, entertainment, fiction, reviews, shows, the present, TV-MA rated

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1797404/
https://www.sho.com/house-of-lies

Following a womanising business consultant.

Supposedly comedy. It’s not.

I find this really strongly uncomfortable. It has a whole lot of immoral or awkward assholishness. Maybe this would develop later, but there’s no way I’m going to get through this show’s growing pains if it’s full of more of what I’ve already seen.

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adzapper

2015-12-13

advertisements, commandline software, corporate jamming, dead, disliked, freeware, glances, internet software, Linux software, open-source software, privacy, software, web browser component replacement, Windows software

https://web.archive.org/web/20190807131131/http://www.zaplet.org:80/adzapper/

A software application that can block ads from being displayed on your web browser.

I experimented with this during my replacing web browser components project as a replacement for various ad blocking, Greasemonkey and Stylish.
See also Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper.
This looks like it hasn’t been updated in forever, because there are references to it being tested under Windows 95/98.

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cliget

2015-12-13

dead, Firefox extensions, freeware, glances, internet software, open-source software, Pale Moon extensions, software, todo, web browser component replacement

TODO – Did I get this working on Pale Moon?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget/

Download files using curl or wget.

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Tcl

2015-12-11

commandline software, dead, freeware, glances, liked, Linux software, macOS software, open-source software, programming languages, projects, software, Tcl, todo, Windows software

coming later

http://www.tcl.tk/

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Gotham – (2014 show)

2015-12-08

crime entertainment, crime shows, dead, disliked, drama entertainment, drama shows, entertainment, reviews, shows, shows inspired by comic books, superhero entertainment, TV-14 rated

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
was https://www.fox.com/gotham/

The early days of Gotham City.

This loiters on all the named characters, trying to explore their backstories. I didn’t like it.

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FossaMail

2015-12-07

abandoned, dead, email clients, freeware, glances, GUI software, internet software, Linux software, open-source software, RSS clients, software, Thunderbird, Windows 8 software, Windows software

Linux email clients >

https://web.archive.org/web/20150114084355/www.fossamail.org/

An email client and RSS client made by the developers of Pale Moon. Based on Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client.

Meh, I’m not sure I like it very much.

Abandoned — https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&p=109097

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YouTube RSS feeds

2015-12-07

abandoned, dead, HOWTO, internet, projects, RSS, YouTube

YouTube + RSS >

At a glance, there are ways but they are annoying. It’s better to use an RSS reader. I’ll check that out eventually.

I thought YouTube didn’t do RSS any more, but Brad left a comment with details. They are untested.

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Jessica Jones – (2015 show)

2015-12-04

comic books, dead, disliked, Disney shows, entertainment, fiction, Krysten Ritter, Marvel comics, reviews, shows, shows inspired by comic books, superhero entertainment, superhero shows, TV-MA rated

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2357547/
https://www.marvel.com/tv-shows/marvel-s-jessica-jones/2

A woman with the powers of strength and PTSD is tormented by a former not-boyfriend and whose description spoils the show.

I watched this for a bit, and it’s slow and boring.

Based on the Marvel Comics character Jessica Jones, whom I hadn’t heard of until now.
I was only interested in this, because I know Krysten Ritter from Breaking Bad – (2008 show).
This takes place in New York City.

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