Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So – The Chrome add-on ecosystem is still fairly young. I recently tried a shift to Chrome, found too many things I’d come to rely upon in Firefox (esp. in tab support) were missing, and shifted back. With both Chrome and Firefox coming out with new versions in the next 6 months, though, I think it’s a good time to be an Internet user. Unless IE9 provide the configuration flexibility that either Chrome or Firefox do, its share will continue to erode.
- ‘Double-Bubble’ Airliners Designed by MIT for NASA Could Trim Fuel Consumption by 70 Percent – Is this the future of air travel?
- Seagate’s upcoming 3TB drives will need new motherboards – I find it astonishing that we’re blowing through disk storage sizes that the manufacturers hardcoded onto motherboards.
- The Greatest Warren Ellis Stories Ever Told! – Ellis is one of those mad-creative geniuses that sometimes just writes schlock — but it’s always genius schlock. Not as pretentious as Moore, more imaginative than Ennis … but I have to say, for some reason, I’ve never had any desire to read any Transmetropolitan. Everything else on this list — yeah.
- London in the raw, 1964… – Trailer for an exploitational documentary that makes London sound like the Last Days of Pompey …
- Saturday Morning Jams : The Thoughtful Animal – Can’t trust a killer whale …
- Clock calculates wasted time at meetings – I think these things would pay for themselves in hours. We need them on our phonecon system, too.
- FOX: Atheists Want Their Version of Religion Taught in Texas – Right – it’s just the atheists who want to stop the Texas State Board of Education from rewriting history — and they actually (no, not actually) want to ban discussion of the Alamo!
- ConspiracyScience.com Addresses Global Warming Denial – And addresses it quite neatly.
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When I finally switched from my Commodore computer to an IBM-compatible (as we knew them back then) computer (why? – because the 4th Gold Box D&D game was only coming out for the PC and its clones), my new computer had a 30 MB hard drive. It was defective, and the store only had 40 MB drives in stock. I bitterly resented being forced to pay for an extra 10 MB of storage space that I knew I could never possibly use. 😀