Awesomeitude!

Here’s a link to the whole gallery. I think the Bob-omb is especially cute.

Awesome quote:

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” -John Gilmore

Also, read this article from Wired. It’s written from the point of view of someone who spent a few years in China doing some writing. Specifically, it talks about their “Great Firewall” - but not from a technical standpoint, from a social one.

Really a great read.

Why you gotta play me like dat?

Notice anything different about this post?

Maybe… I’m writing it in IE instead of Firefox.

Why would I use the spawn of the devil? Well, because it seems to WORK RIGHT at the moment…

My Firefox install has been acting crazy for at least a MONTH. Besides taking a shit on my bookmarks file (at least it auto-creates backups of it…) it seems to be refusing to recognize when I’m in text boxes.

”””””””””””””” see those? Those are apostraphies - I can’t use those in Firefox. Every time I hit that key, the “Quick Search” dialong box comes up.

I think Firefox 3 is coming out at the end of November… let’s hope that fixes some of this stuff up…

I mean, for browsing it’s pretty good, plug in Zotero and it becomes an unbelieveable research tool - but it’s just been freaking out lately, and I don’t have the time and patience to back up all my crap and reinstall right now.

EDIT: From the looks of things, there’re 7 “blockers” stopping Beta 1 from coming out (according to the latest weekly meeting at Firefox HQ).

Yep, Research in Motion is in bed with Facebook.

Apparently, there’ll be some direct integration between Facebook and the RIM OS (the article mentions someone taking a photo, tagging it,and putting it on Facebook WITHOUT opening the Facebook application).

Proving once again - Facebook is the “It” thing that everyone wants a piece of, but I still don’t have high hopes for the Facebook future - I don’t think walled gardens can last for forever.

…if I was camping anywhere in California recently.

Huge wildfires, leaving thousands of people homeless - and, ladies and gents, they elect their Judges and Prosecutors.

Just try getting a fair trial when half the people voting for the judge are homeless.

They’re out for blood, I’d wager.

Even Schwarzenegger vowed to “hunt down” the arsonists. (I guess it would’ve been a bit insensitve for him to say that he would “Terminate the arsonists”…)

Apparently, this is the new, hot toy this season. The head moves, it sniffs, and it makes noises. Retail is somewhere around $250-$350.

I can’t really comment on the objective value of the thing. Me, I think the average kid would get tired of “feeding” and “brushing” their fake horse (it doesn’t actually move) pretty fast.

Watch the assembly video though

Did you catch it?

That’s right… when Suzie opens up her Fur Real Pony… it won’t have a head. What a great Christmas.