Mozilla has released the second alpha of Fennec, their mobile browser. There’s a short but sweet overview of Fennec on Vimeo which is worth checking out. I think almost regardless of it’s performance improvements the real game-changing potential here is the inevitable swathe of add-ons and extensions that will be, and in some cases such… Read more »
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George Carlin’s eulogy on Kuro5hin
Kuro5hin has a brilliant, if lazy, eulogy for George Carlin – who would undoubtedly have loved it. Pope John Paul II George Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they are an integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but to be accepted willingly… Read more »
Firefox 3 RC1 Extensions
Now that Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is out, I’ve decided to give it a proper trial. I had tried running Firefox 2 and 3 in parallel on my macbook, but found that 3 would always try and become the default browser, which annoyed me enough to get rid of it. Now though I’ve gone… Read more »
Is Link Journalism any different to the majority of reporting?
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting but not exactly deeply thought-out piece on Link Journalism. I think the point they miss is to question how much journalism done for mainstream media channels is nothing more than repitition of the day’s news agenda – it’s not a coincidence that most journalists’ bosses are called editors. Haven’t you ever… Read more »
The Real Threat
Along the lines of my recent post about car-related deaths versus terrorism-related deaths, see this graph representing the amounts of deaths related to different issues. I may have to steal the ‘Saint Pete for Peace’ moniker.