Objective: Find and photograph as many of the items on the list!

Help me expand the list of things to find! Post your suggestions as comments to this post. The harder to find the better, but general items are welcome as well. The list will be updated with approved items.

Some limitations:
I'll be using my phone to take these pictures, so anything underwater or really far away may be problematic. Anything that requires a lot of detail probably won't work either. You know how camera phone pictures are- blurry and dim. Pictures taken at night or in low light conditions will be hit or miss.

The List:
Airplane safety card
in-flight ocean view
palm tree
pineapple
coconut
nice sandy beach
sailing vessel of some sort
shells: ringed, ridged, spiral
Hawaiian money
a sombrero
out-of-state license plate
Interstate sign
a horse
a person of Indian or Mexican descent
Tourists (not members of your group)
Hot girl of college age in bikini (bonus points if thong)
TSA screener
Volcano crater (from the side; will try to get better view)
A sunken ship
sugar cane
a hibiscus in bloom
Stitch
an authentic hula dancer
surf boards
Tourists getting Lei'd
harvard memorabilia
sea turtle (on land)
spam (the food)
a weird fruit
a fat person wearing a really tight swim suit
an asian tourist doing the asian peace sign
a celebrity
a cockroach
ABC store
Zippys
Three street signs that aren't in hawaiian
Sunscreen under 30 spf
Dole Bananas
mangoes
Meat Jun
keychain of slippers made from wood
bodyboards in a store
the "breakfast plate" at mcdonalds
hot mixed race hawaiian girls
iguana
belly ring
airplane preztels

Hope everyone has a safe and fun Independence Day celebration!

I found this again, still relevant as ever.


From If Banner Ads Were Forced To Be Truthful [cracked.com].

Due to some rumblings indirectly caused by Firefox 3, I finally noticed some undesired behavior in the [G]Code tag system. There were a number of problems with the previous version that are fixed by way of a code rewrite in version 3. The code is more efficient now, with large chunks of redundant lines streamlined.

This really isn't a good time for my wallet. The Ecler Evo4 is now available, and the new Thinkpads are set to be officially announced in mid-July. Ah, well, it's never too late to start saving.

Today marks the release of Firefox 3 and the record-attempting 'Download Day'. While not a whole lot has changed from the beta that I tried out on my other computer, the difference from 2.0 to 3.0 is pretty significant. Perhaps the most noticeable is the user interface, with the navigation toolbar switched about and the new location bar. One may even notice that the speed has improved as well.

One thing I do not like about Firefox 3 is the new 'smart search' location bar. I've become very familiar with typing in the first two letters of a URL and using the arrow key to choose the one I want, which is usually in the first three slots. The default Firefox 3 address bar wants to search URLs and titles, and often displays them in a non-intuitive (yet) method. I also find the 'highlight as you type' to be distracting, although it was designed to draw the user's attention.

In any case, I've compromised and found a few settings to tame the address bar to my liking:

Installing the oldbar [mozilla.org] extension disables highlighting as you type. The results still search through titles, which can be fixed with some configuration settings.

The following are settings in Firefox, which can be accessed by typing 'about:config' into the location bar. Note the warning and continue at your discretion.

Setting browser.urlbar.match [mozillazine.org] variable to '2' makes searching begin at the beginning of words, which puts the URLs that you want mostly at the top.

Optionally, you can turn the results off by setting browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0. What I really don't like about this is that Firefox 3 will attempt to match as many results as it can regardless of whether they are relevant or not. I do not like this because sometimes, I forget a URL and go through the alphabet to see if it shows up in the list.

I also have browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped set to 1. I haven't quite figured out what it does yet, but I speculate that it would prioritize URLs that you manually entered previously or match only what's typed (not sure how that's different than the default behavior) more explicitly. It will only match things that you type into the address bar, and will not display results from links that you click. I just turned this option off to make it easier to re-find a page.

I think in time, though, the differences will become second nature much like tabbed browsing (although that didn't really radically change a preexisting function). I know I definitely fall into the category of power users that complain whenever something familiar changes, regardless for better or worse.

Edit: Every so often, FF3 goes nuts with the disk to update what I can only conclude is the data for the AwesomeBar (the new location bar that I complain about). The file in question is 'urlclassifer3.sqlite', which hints at something to do with URLs with sqlite being the storage method.