Firefox 3.6 is out.

Among other things, Personas are built-in, no add-on required.

Okay, so I just called Verizon and got my account overhauled to save some money and see if there were some perks I could get squeezed out of the deal. So long story short, I'm paying $6 a month less and my bandwidth went up. I just did a Speakeasy speed test, here are the results.

Download Speed: 25905 kbps (3238.1 KB/sec transfer rate ( Read more... )

Hey, kevinbolkart got plugged on Slashdot!

Someone provided a link to his "Watchbabies" strips on an article about Watchmen.

That's like… serious geek cred!

It looks like a college student did some work on implementing a program that calculates the degrees of separation between two Wikipedia articles. It calculates how close Wikipedia articles are by number of clicks (a links to b which links to c, etc…)

My personal favorites that I just tried:

• Rush Limbaugh to Anal sex = 2 clicks (Rush Limbaugh → ( Read more... )

If you think the terms JavaScript and Java are interchangeable, I want you to stop "programming" web pages.

I bring you a pair of comments that transcends all geeky Internet lore.

Slashdot is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. Part of the celebration includes an auction of nostalgic crap they have lying around to benefit the EFF. One item on sale is a box that just has stuff thrown into it. The photo of the box has a framed picture of Vegeta (yes, that ( Read more... )

OMFG YAY!

Federal Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act.

Synopsis: A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court's approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers.

To all my fellow Firefox users:

The Operator 0.8 extension is now available. Very cool add-in, if you don't know what microformats are, you'll just have to see what this plugin does for yourself.

Dude... my Shunya Yamashita book, Sweet Dreams: The Art of Shunya Yamashita came today. I approve of this.

I played Bioshock last night at my friend's place. He gets promo copies of games frequently to review. All I can say about it is Holy crap!. This should be on your must-play list, 360 owners.

Finally, anyone for Bacn?

For no particular reason, other than to show off, here are my favorite FireFox extensions in no particular order.

• Fasterfox
• Web Developer
• AdBlock Plus
• Del.icio.us
• Live HTTP Headers