New Firefox ad

A new Firefox ad has popped up on the "Social Daily News" website, be sure to grab a look.

One of the things I like about Firefox is the ingenuity of the advertisements for it. This is just one small example.

And don't forget, if you enjoy Firefox, pass it on :-).

Weekly round up Sept 25th

Over the last couple of days there were quite a few interesting stories popping up around the net. Here are a few of them.

The first story is about a child in Russia that survived a plane ride on a the outside of boeing 737 by holding on to its wing. Though that sound questionable, the story is interesting and seems legit.

Another interesting story is about the M-16 and M4 and how they are pretty much obsolite, as the gun hasn't been changed or upgraded much since the 1960s when it was invented. In the link you'll find a movie article from PBS with the story and some interesting interviews and discoveries (e.g. did you know someone invented a 100 bullet magazine for the M-16?...).

Michael Winslow, the actor who starred in Police Academy (1984) (more info about him in his IMDB file) and also Spaceballs (1987) does a short skit in the neighboring blog Fuzbooo.

The movie poster is (c) of its respective owner.

Speaking of Spaceballs, I came across this fan site and noticed the ad that there's an animated series of Spaceballs coming this Fall to G4!

Amazing cloud formations can be seen a the link, though I must admit that those look too good to be real clouds, and if they are (i.e. assuming they are), well, they are just beautiful.

One more list of great Open Source tools for you to choose from, whether you're a student, an educator, or just a regular computer user. Open source provides you with free software alternatives to programs you would otherwise pay money for. Not only that, but for the same free-price you also get the source code, so that you'd be able to adjust the program to your own needs. For more information about open source, you can check out the list of articles I've written about them and also be sure to read more at the Free Software Foundation website.

Gmail - Behind the scenes video

This is another fun video I found on the net, this time about Gmail.

Internet People

This is a funny video from Youtube, a tribute to the Internet People of 2007:



Try and recognize the videos and people involved.

Tron Sequel in the works

One of the better 1980s classics might be coming back - Tron! One of my favorite sci-fi movies might actually get a sequel, as reported in Digg and here.

Copyright notice: This movie poster is copyrighted by its owner and is shown here under fair use, which enables a review of the movie to show the poster along with it. If you think this is still in error, please mail me and I will take it down.

The first movie proved to be original and unique in its incorporation of CG environments as entire movie sets. It was one of the first movies to do that, even though nowadays we take that sort of a thing for granted.

Tron was also a fun to watch, even though I was a bit to young to understand the tech speak (remember that Personal Computers arrived in the mid 1980s).

Making of - a short animated video

The following is a funny short animated video called "Making of":

400 million downloads for Firefox

Firefox has reached a great milestone of 400 million downloads. Though that number does not neccesarily mark 400 million users, it still is an important benchmark for the Firefox team and the Open Source community as a whole.

The official release about it can be found here and you can also read about it over at CNET.

Ethan the laughing baby

This is an amazing clip about Ethan, the baby, laughing in front of the camera. Absolutely hilarious:



If you liked that one, here's another short round of more laughing babies:

Sigg Jones

A funny short animated vid of Sigg Jones that I've found online:



From the Sigg Jones website: "... a short movie made by three students from Supinfocom School in France".

A subway map of Web2.0 trends

A nice map of the Web2.0 scene popped out and can be viewed here. The map is a subway-like representation of the web2.0 technologies and trends.

I think it's a nice representation of many components of the Web2.0 and how things have now become since the declaration of Web2.0 by Tim O'Reilly back in 2005.

Open Source and Education

Dana Blankenhorn writes about Open source in the K-12 education system, its difficulties and achievements, and how it copes with Internet restrictions in the education system.

See also the discussion in Digg.

Google Earth hidden Flight Simulator

Marco reports in his blog about a hidden feature in the new version of Google Earth - a flight simulator.

Instructions on how to activate the hidden simulator, along with screenshots after the link.