Slate Article on Firefox

Are the Browser Wars Back? - How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer. By Paul Boutin:

Scob didn't get me, but it was enough to make me ditch Explorer in favor of the much less vulnerable Firefox browser. Firefox is built and distributed free by the Mozilla Organization, a small nonprofit corporation spun off last year from the fast-fading remnants of Netscape, which was absorbed by AOL in 1999. Firefox development and testing are mostly done by about a dozen Mozilla employees, plus a few dozen others at companies like IBM, Sun, and Red Hat. I've been using it for a week now, and I've all but forgotten about Explorer.

Firefox is getting more mainstream attention every day thanks to IE's vulnerabilities and such. Maybe the tide really is turning. I think it's still going to take a lot more for the average joe user to make the switch. About 90% of brendoman.com's traffic comes from IE users. That's saying a lot since all the people I know that hit the site use Firefox or some other IE alternative. We'll see what happens.

The Latest on Episode 3

Coming Soon! - Latest News: "The official 'Star Wars' website reports that the round of additional photography for Star Wars: Episode III has been scheduled and will be primarily blue and greenscreen shooting."

I made a rash vow that I wouldn't give Lucas another cent of my money. As of right now, I plan on sticking to that. The only way I would give him anything is if he put the real original films on DVD. Just say no to the crap that's being released in September. Maybe I'm being a little too harsh. We'll see.

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I'm on vacation and I'm also a little drained.

Force Fields?!?!

Force field for tanks - Engadget - www.engadget.com

First torture beams, now force fields. I'm afraid to find out what's next. Oh yeah, I know. Robots driving tanks that have force fields and are equipped with torture beams. We're all going to die.

Scary Stuff

sacbee.com -- News -- Invisible beam tops list of nonlethal weapons

Test subjects can't see the invisible beam from the Pentagon's new, Star Trek-like weapon, but no one has withstood the pain it produces for more than three seconds.

People who volunteered to stand in front of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire. When they stepped aside, the pain disappeared instantly.

That's a little freaky. Maybe it's just me.

This is amazing

junkmachine.com - old school cool.

Best. Mod. Ever.