Whitman boys.

I’VE BEEN USING MOZILLA’S“FIREFOX” BROWSER EXCLUSIVELY FOR MONTHS. It’s great–no popups, lotsa speed, tabbed browsing, etc. But yesterday I discovered something that makes it, oh, so much better. Get this: in every subfolder in your bookmarks menu, the bottom-most option in the folder is “open in tabs.” I always ignored this option. But if you click it, it will open — simultaneously – every link in that subfolder, in a separate tab. Read five blogs every day? Put ‘em in a subfolder, and read them in quick succession without worryong about load times. Read online comics? Same deal. Wanna check the headlines on Google News, CNN.com, the Free Republic, and al-Jazeera? Done.

It’s been a long time since I was this excited about a minor feature. Firefox rules. Did I mention it’s free?

UPDATE 06.30.04 2:58 PM PST: 3 hours after my post, Paul Boutin, writing in owned-by-Microsoft Slate, advised switching to Firebird, largely because it does not have IE’s security vulnerabilities.

ELVIS MITCHELL HAS LEFT THE BUILDING. I knew I hadn’t seen many Mitchell reviews in the Times lately, but I chalked it up to vacation, perhaps, or some dizzying run at a series of obscure film festivals that produced reviews that went beneath my radar. When I saw that A.O. Scott had reviewed Spider-Man 2, a plum I expected to go to Mitchell, I figured something was up. The Google search tok 0.17 seconds: He has left the Times for uncertain destinations. I know him only from his reviews, in the Times and on NPR, so the NY Metro piece linked above, which recounts as old news Mitchell’s rep for big expense accounts and hobnobbing with Hollywood types, was an interesting surprise. I guess Manhattanites are more used to knowing details about the personalities of their journalists.

Anyway, I hope he shows up to write regular reviews elsewhere, maybe spelling Kenneth Turan at the LA Times.

NBA DRAFT YESTERDAY. The Blazers picked Sebastian Telfair. I won’t be the first to say this, but I don’t blog often about sports (except football): this is a major failure, another draft pick Portland will regret.

FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW, Dahlia Lithwick of Slate and constitutional law guru Walter Dellinger are doing a breakfast table post-mortem of the big Supreme Court decisions this year. Reminds me that no matter how dissatisfied I might be with my practice, I love being a law geek. Though uber-sweetie Trina would remind me that law geekiness is just a subset of overall geekiness, despite which she still loves me.

29 days until wedded bliss. Woo!

TED OLSON IS TOAST! Ding, dong, the witch is dead…

MARK AMES ON ANN COULTER: An excerpt, but please, read the whole thing:

Last week, Ann Coulter appeared on Hannity & Colmes looking haggard and clinically insane. The Night of the Living Dead circles underneath her eyes, the lifeless hair—it looks like she’s been living on canned foods for the past two months. Ann looked like she should be pushing a shopping cart, not politicking for Bush. It wasn’t just what she said—like repeatedly accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of being an anti-Semite—it was how she said it. She laughed insanely after every sentence fragment she uttered, a clear symptom of late-stage paranoid-schizophrenia.

The saddest part was when Hannity flashed the cover of Coulter’s upcoming How to Talk to a Liberal. There she is, posing full-length in a tight black mini, a childless MILF-wannabe trying to pass herself off as a 40-something far-right pin-up. Ann’s star is sagging, and apparently her handlers don’t have the heart to tell her.