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| Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:36 AM PDT  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Firefox: 30 percent of the world market That's what Mozilla figured out after crunching numbers from a variety of firms — StatCounter, Quantcast, Net Applications and Gemius — and mixing in its own data. The open source browser's largest market share is in Europe, with nearly 40 percent penetration (152.7 million users). More @ NetworkWorld 2. Without Shuttles, Astronauts' Careers May Stall Chris Ferguson is a former space shuttle commander. Now he moonlights as a drummer for a Houston-based astronaut rock band. "Perhaps we'll have some more time to practice here once the shuttle program comes to a slow end," he says. More @ NPR 3. Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them. Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs. More @ BoingBoing 4. JooJoo turns out to be legit, gets torn down. 5. A different kind of company name Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We've been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka. More @ Googleblog 6. Groklaw: How One Person Can Do Big Deeds. Thanks PJ. The endless SCO saga is finally at an end, and justice has prevailed. But without Groklaw, would it have ended differently? More @ LinuxToday 7. Why Microsoft did the right thing in ditching XP for IE9 I recently expressed a lack of surprise that Internet Explorer 9 will almost certainly not be supported on Windows XP. In Redmond's words, a "modern browser" needs a "modern operating system," and Windows XP doesn't qualify. More @ ArsTechnica 8. Robot waiters serve food and dance moves in Thailand, secretly plotting humiliation revenge 9. SCO Wins, Sony Switches to Linux, Pigs Take to the Skies Coders tempted to insert Easter Eggs into their projects should find another way to get their kicks. Back in the day, "snide little comments in the garbage at the end of files or some such nonsense" were funny, recalled blogger Robert Pogson. Now, "we have malware," he said. More @ LinuxInsider 10. Top 10 Ultimate Post-Apocalypse Movies A Post-apocalyptic film is a sub-genre of science fiction, and is set in a world or civilization after nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. This list looks at ten of the ultimate films in this genre and it hopefully differs from the usual films found on these lists by introducing a few films that are less well known these days. More @ Listverse  |
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