Firefox 1.5 is out! Apparently it’s the exact same version as RC3 which has been the version I’ve been using for awhile since it auto-updated. Some new features include: Automatic Updates, Improved Pop-up Blocking, Clear Private Data, Accessibility. If you’re planning to update or install Firefox, please click on my Firefox button on the right. Much appreciated!
Random Crap:
Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year – Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It’s all part of falling passionately in love — and scientists now tell us the feeling won’t last more than a year.
Creativity linked to sexual success – Pablo Picasso, Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas had more in common than simple creativity. They also had active sex lives, which researchers said on Wednesday was no coincidence. Psychologists at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University found that professional artists and poets have about twice as many partners as other people.
Xbox 360 – a good review on the Xbox 360 by Ars Technica.
The Good:
- High resolution graphics with rock solid frame rates and full surround sound
- Classic games on demand
- Perfect online integration with every title
- Xbox Live just keeps getting better and better
- Wireless controllers as a standard
The Bad:
- The heat!
- Strong but unspectacular launch library
- Try buying one; watch the clerk laugh at you
- Confusion over the two versions of the system
- Without an Internet connection and hard drive you won’t get all the features
- A lot noisier than we’re used to with consoles
The Ugly:
- Being able to use the power brick as a heater for your house. The thing barely fits under my bed, and it keeps me warm all night
Nepal to probe mystery ‘Buddha’ boy – At least 100,000 devotees from Nepal and neighbouring India have flocked in recent weeks to a dense forest in southeastern Nepal to see 15-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon, who, his associates say, has been meditating without food or water for six months.
Survival Song – a very cute Thanksgiving eCard with a parody of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive.