Google Chrome Extensions that I Like

AdBlock - Version: 2.0.18 AdBlock for Chrome! Blocks ads all over the web. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars by our users!

AdThwart - Version: 0.9.26 Blocks ads using the Firefox AdBlock Plus filter engine. Kiss ads goodbye and browse in peace!

Blog This! (by Google) - Version: 0.0.7 Add a BlogThis! button to the browser toolbar, which lets you post to your Blogger blog from any webpage with just one click.

Click&Clean - Version: 5.3.0.0 Deletes your browsing history, typed URLs, Flash cookies, all traces of your online activity to protect your privacy.

Downloads - Version: 1 Access the Downloads window directly from the toolbar

Google Calendar Checker (by Google) - Version: 1.0.3 Quickly see the time until your next meeting. Click the button to open your calendar.

Google Mail Checker Plus - Version: 1.1.7 Displays the number of unread messages in your Gmail and Google Apps inbox. Preview mail, read, delete, archive and mark as spam!

Woot! - Version: 1.1 Want to see what's for sale today at Woot? There's an app...Er, I mean, we can help.

Xmarks Bookmarks and Password Sync - Version: 0.8.43 Backup and sync your bookmarks, passwords and open tabs across computers and browsers. Xmarks is also available for Firefox, Safari and IE.

Orlando Real Estate Financing Data

The percentage of Orlando real estate transactions completed on an all cash basis has increased dramatically over the past years. Reasons include:

A significant number of investor buyers who are not able to secure financing and therefore must pay cash, and
A significant number of properties that are ineligible for financing, such as very low priced condos and properties that need intensive rehabilitation.
All Cash Transactions
Year % of All-Cash Transactions
2010 51.09
2009 41.38
2008 20.26
2007 8.95
2006 6.56
2005 9.28
2004 10.48
2003 9.50
2002 10.03

Unbelievable Plots from the History Channel Network

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I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called "World War II".

Let's start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check. Secret police, check. Determination to brutally kill everyone who doesn't look like them, check. Leader with a tiny villain mustache and a tendency to go into apopleptic rage when he doesn't get his way, check. All this from a country that was ordinary, believable, and dare I say it sometimes even sympathetic in previous seasons.

I wouldn't even mind the lack of originality if they weren't so heavy-handed about it. Apparently we're supposed to believe that in the middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be? And that they diverted all their resources to use in making ever bigger and scarier death camps, even in the middle of a huge war? Real people just aren't that evil. And that's not even counting the part where as soon as the plot requires it, they instantly forget about all the racism nonsense and become best buddies with the definitely non-Aryan Japanese.