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The BBC reports on new data that suggests the presence of briny water flowing across the surface of Mars. The article says, “It is bound to increase speculation that life may exist near to the surface of the planet,” but although I am by no means an expert I submit that *if* this proves to be water, it’s still to early to predict the presence of life. Although that would be pretty cool and might actually spur NASA on to a long-overdue Mars Mission.
Just to annoy Driko, I’m going to beat him to the punch on announcing that Mozilla 1.3 has been released. :-p As he has mentioned in the past, it is full of nice features like pop-up blocking, themes/skins, fast page rendering, tabbed browsing, and more. However, they inexplicably left out an important feature: you can’t import your IE bookmarks. I’m baffled why they left that out of this release – it has worked in the past. I’m going to say they won’t win many converts this round, but we’ll see what they do with version 1.4.
Has anybody been using the Mozilla Mail feature? It has a nice layout, and the bayesian spam filter sounds pretty cool. From what I could tell with a quick test, it can’t alert you to new incoming mail unless you have a window open for it at all times. Surely there is a way to accomplish this?
I suppose we should be happy that they finally got to play China after 30 years, but the Chinese Ministry of Culture is censoring their performance, not allowing them to play “Brown Sugar,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Beast of Burden,” or “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” all of which contain “sexual references.” Whatever…
The Beastie Boys have come out with a song protesting U.S. war efforts on Iraq. 
(MP3 link) I may not totally agree with their cause, but you’ve gots to give props to some of the mad lyrics:
Mirrors, smokescreens and lies
It’s not the politicians but their actions I despise
You and Saddam should kick it like back in the day
With the cocaine and Courvoisier…Well I’m not pro Bush and I’m not pro Saddam
We need these fools to remain calm
George Bush you’re looking like Zoolander
Trying to play tough for the camera
Word. Peaceindamiddleeast.
Remember that great Miller Lite commercial where the two hot women were arguing and got into a mudfight? Well, I present to you: the uncensored version of the commercial. Enjoy.
“Dentist on probation for calming his patient with beer” If that’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
A young German woman in a coma for six years apparently showed signs of life when taken to see her idol Bryan Adams in concert. Once I had a pimple that went away after listening to Reckless three times in a row. Coincidence? I think not.
Arab News reports “In a bid to salvage its business interest in the Middle East, McDonald’s has introduced a new sandwich for the Arab consumer: McArabia…made of Arab bread, grilled chicken, lettuce, tomatoes and Arab sauce.” Arab sauce?! I’m not sure I want to know…
The days of Maryland state budget cuts to education have returned, and so must the days of activism to minimize them. I’m sure I don’t need to explain the benefits of education to the readers of this blog. So, if you’d care to take 60 seconds to fill in your name, contact info, and a few other bits of information to this petition, hopefully you can help make a difference without having to hold a sign on Rt. 1. The site promises that your information will only be sent to the General Assembly, not used for other purposes. Obviously, this is mainly directed to those with Maryland addresses, but I encourage our other readers to be similarly involved in your own communities. Remember, education builds the future of society.
CBS reports that on Tuesday W “signed legislation creating a national ‘do-not-call’ list intended to help consumers block unwanted telemarketing calls. The bill allows the Federal Trade Commission to collect fees from telemarketers to fund the registry, which will cost about $16 million in its first year. The do-not-call program should begin operation by summer.” It’s about time! I just hope that it works as intended, because the telemarketing industry has always found ways to ply its unwanted wares in the past despite similar measures.
