The latest issue of Wired Magazine has the two guys primarily responsible for the creation of the Firefox web browser (an offshoot of Mozilla) on the cover and a good article about the history, present and future of the browser.
Read it online here (wired.com)
It seems that in Finland people who are placed in the compulsory military service can get sent home for a few years if diagnosed to have ‘internet addiction’. The diagnosis seems to fall on those young men who before being conscripted (drafted) didn’t have much real world social lives, but were quiet types who would stay up all night playing online games and chatting with ‘virtual friends’, and then were suddenly yanked away from that life and forced into a real world they weren’t prepared for (hmm, sounds like me, hehe).
They get a few years to go home and ‘grow up’ but have to come back and finish their service.
Man, if only I could use that excuse to get me out of things, like, oh I dunno, being an adult and having a job. “I’m sorry, I just can’t take all this, I’m addicted to the internet… can I go home now?” 🙂
-r-
My friend Tim sent this little gem along to me. Funny stuff!
http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/good_wife.html
darned wimmen, learn your place! *ducks* 🙂
-r-
I will never cease to be amazed at how stupid some people are. A couple from Florida were having a phone conversation during a movie. A couple police officers showed up and asked them to stop, and not only did they not end the call, they made remarks like telling an officer that they’d “hit the cracker in his head” and other such remarks.
They got pepper sprayed and then were taken into custody.
DAMN them’s some dumb folk in Florida. hehe. Read the C|Net story here.
-r-
Recently the Star Wars Fan Film award winners were chosen (the top prize was picked by none other than George Lucas himself), this years ‘George Lucas Selects’ winner was Escape from Tatooine, where the entire ending is a spoof of the ending of Planet of the Apes (2001).
However, I was alerted today by my buddy Steve to the Audience Choice winner, which is in my opinion a great deal funnier than ‘Escape from Tatooine’.
Take a look at ‘Pink Five Strikes Back’ here (atomfilms.com)
However you may wish to view the original ‘Pink Five‘ first.
-r-