the key is to get other people to tell you how
First... I was totally 1337 last night and learned how to haxxor (read: tweak) Firefox to make it faster.  The key was getting somebody to show me how.  And the second part was the very clever "about:config" command in the address bar.  From there you search for pipelining and set to "true" rather than false.

That way, instead of having one packet of webpage information download at a time in sequence, you get more of them at the same time!  (there's a value [default set to four I think] and you can changed that to 15 or 30 or however many packets you want downloaded at the same time!)

Anyway, after all that hacking I naturally looked up Super Mario speed runs on youtube.  What else is a geek to do on a friday night?  This guy is hilarious!  Watch the Super Mario Bros. Forever ROM below.  (ps; it's a voice-over of someone else's run)


Also... what's up with all the jerks out there posting Harry Potter spoilers?  The internet is a minefield!  Careful of what comments you read today and over the next week.