From my Google Reader shared items (formatted a bit better than the last installment):
- There He Goes Again, Again … from Obsidian Wings
John McCain talks a lot about “cap and trade” on carbon emission issues — but he doesn’t seem to really understand what it means. - The Straight Dope: We know how many people die annually… from www.straightdope.com
Do handguns save more lives than they take? Not even Uncle Cecil knows … - Firefox 3 will be unleashed on June 17th. from Stupid Evil Bastard
Hey! That’s today! Woot! All the beta folks have waxed lyrically over this. Glad to see it’s finally leaving beta. - Surviving the unthinkable from Decrepit Old Fool
When disaster strikes, getting information demonstrably improves survivability. So why do the experts and authorities simply urge people not to panic and just stand by for instructions?
97 view(s)
As to the gun statistics:
Anything that even comes close to using John Lott/Mary Rosh’s crime statistics should be highly suspect if not out and out wrong.
The Mozilla site seems to be hosed. However, the direct FTP link works.
ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
I noticed that. I had problems getting through to Mozilla, too.
Ah, well. I can wait a day (or two).
There is always the added (hopeful) bonus that any add-ons you use will be made compatible with 3.0 when you finally install it. I miss permatabs (sob)
One of the extensions that won’t work with Firefox 3 is “Go Up.” I missing having a button that easily lets me move up a level in the directory tree for the page I’m browsing. Do you know of another extension that will do that? A search turned up nothing useful.