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15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever

After a lull, the competition between the major players in the
browser / web client space is heating up again. Now that
Microsoft has ramped up their PR campaign on Silverlight
(formerly WPF/E), and Adobe is doing the same with their
Apollo, a lot of people are talking about what it all means,
both in terms of the technical merits of the platforms and the
effect of proprietary lock-in on freedom. One particularly
skeptical take on the latter is Mark Pilgrim's Silly
season post, which has been making the rounds of
the tech blogs

Broadband to go free in 2 yrs

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.



My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.

There are many software packages out there for collecting data regarding how much you download or upload but most display the information in a functional but boring, spreadsheet-style layout. Wouldn’t it be much nicer for a piece of software to gather this data and allow you to visualize it by turning it into a 3D world on your desktop?

Google Personal Homepage Gets Skinnable

A Neat Trick on how to Resurface a CD