“As the arbiter and recorder of the world’s amazing facts, Guinness World Records is pleased to add Mozilla’s achievement to our archives. Mobilizing over 8 million internet users within 24 hours is an extremely impressive accomplishment and we would like to congratulate the Mozilla community for their hard work and dedication.” — Gareth Deaves, Records […]
In our age of digital blips, bleeps and loops, Erik Mongrain goes au natural with guitar and tapping hands.
Money might not buy love, but it can buy a life. Over on eBay, bidding’s up to $395,000 for the life Ian Usher, a Brit expat now living in Australia. Purchase price includes his lifestyle, house, vehicle, friends, job and — our favorite — other good stuff. Bidding closes on the 28th.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer digs through a slew of old Microsoft email and comes across this nugget: Bill Gates berates his usability team because it’s absolutely impossible, indeed scary, to download and install a piece of Microsoft software.
Our political dialog of sound bites and gotchas reaches a logical conclusion over at Twitter where the Personal Democracy Forum has organized a debate between the Obama-McCain campaigns on all things tech. Deep and profound positions and answers to looming technological inquiries can be found — 140 characters at a time — over at Tweetboards.
Feeling unloved and under appreciated despite all the work you do? This one’s for you.
The Cannes International Advertising Festival awards a hallucinogenic AIDS prevention campaign its bronze medal.
It’s up, it’s down, it’s Twitter all around
Various companies are taking browsing outside the browser. The good news? Silky new media walls.
Reddit may trail Digg when it comes to overall users in the the social bookmarking space, but they’ve now gone open source and released their code to the wild. We give it our double thumbs up.