Hmm. Dig the implementation of feeds in Gmail but not the name. “Web Clips”? Bleech.
Category: Asides
Mozilla Thunderbird Gets Firefox-style Tabs
Someday Firefox and Mozilla will be one glorified application (Ok, kidding, we’ve been there). But until we go back there, Thunderbird will have tabs.
CivicSpace 0.8.2 Released
CNET acquires Consumating
Damned if I know what a news network site wants with a geek dating site… unless they’re going social…?
Prioritizing network traffic to kill off competition
Seems that network providers want to sell priority for bandwidth, with potentially disastrous results on the little guy.
NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox
According to Dan Turner “NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts. The official line is that the newest IE vulnerability was the proverbial straw, and now NASA’s standard browser is Firefox.“
France moves to ban open source
Get your pitchforks folks, it’s time to protect the future of open source in France!
Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
Seems to me that if the government is going to continue to increase its ability to collect all kinds of information about its citizenry (in ways unknown to those citizens), then the citizenry ought demand a more open source government.
Entertainment industry: Treat our customers like terrorists!
The newly-formed Creative and Media Business Alliance (CMBA), made up of companies such as Sony BMG, Disney, EMI, IFPI, MPA and Universal Music International, this week expressed an interest in communications traffic data so that they can more easily prosecute “intellectual property infringements”.
Via Boing Boing
Firecat – Domesticate the Web
Factory Joe 