Extremists, meet the blog

Jon Udell: “What mainly fascinates me about this moment in history is the role of the blog. We’ve turned a corner, I think, in terms of pluralism. Authentic voices on all sides of all debates are heard directly. The world is profoundly more transparent. Given the irreducible and growing complexity of everything, this is a necessary and wonderful thing. I feel lucky to be a part of it!”

Get a grip

Idiotic bug comment of the day: “I for one will not use mozilla for browzing until the splash is changed, or more sensibly just deleted.” You’re not using a product because of the splash screen!? Just add -nosplash to the command line options and go on. First impressions matter, but there are thousands of problems more important than replacing the fire-breathing mozilla splash screen.