sure it’s getting bad press, but mozilla isn’t doing that badly. plus, despite how much i enjoy greg knauss’ writing, i have to say that some of the stuff he cites as bloatware and unnecessary is not. i do agree that because of it’s componentized nature, focus should have been shifted more to working on core features and then extending upon that with point release upgrades.
is the usps offering free email for national residents a good thing? no mention in the msnbc article on how they’re gonna split up subdomains to make it all work. too bad the usps doesn’t have the foresight to set up a digital certificate or registered/encrypted mail mail type thing. that would actually be useful.
plus, maybe this will push the issue of how invasive and stupid current digital rights (searches through hard drives, reading emails, etc) vs paper are.
or, perhaps, as tebriel suggests, perhaps this means that that my email will now [b]e bent, broken, bruised and battered as well as 3 days late?
funky golden orb heatsinks. these seem to cool as well as the best of ’em while being a bit quieter and being really cool looking (not that you’re going to see your cpu heatsink that much if you have you’re cover on).
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i’ve never seen the smoke test before.
i wasn’t impressed too much by adam pollina’s old stuff, but the new work he did (movie concept art) for generation last is pretty stylin.
a search for his name brought up a mention in the swipe of the week. amazing how much jim lee gets ripped off (and not just copied, but straight out traced on).
i can see wha al ries is saying about internet business, but i have to say that there are two choices you can make. buy the lowest price, where branding doesn’t matter, because you’re finding that low price from a search engine like pricewatch, or buy from a site consistently because it is able to offer you personalized service that is impossible to get offline, and that becomes more useful as you use it more.
also, ries (or the author ochman, it’s not clear) talks about shoppers using the internet for research but making purchases traditionally, which may be true when your talking about large purchases (cars), but doesn’t make sense for small things that you buy regularly consumer goods (electronics, media, etc) – which you buy a heck of a lot more often than a car.
epitonic has a good eclectic mix of quality music. currently streaming some breakbeat, but i’ll probably be checking out the indie rock stuff later on.
ooh, scripts, including an early draft of the x-men. i recall reading the magneto and scott summers prologues elsewhere, but not the rest i think. either that, or my memory is failing me…