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Download it from the Mozilla Corporation

update: there is a G4 (and G5) optimized build available here

Apple is set to release a new Mac Mini that will finally take advantage off the unique features of Apple software and the mini form factor. A bit late but if true, very very cool.

Think Secret - Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room

try ruby! (in your browser) (via: James)

Suitsupply Pakman:

PBS | I, Cringely . November 17, 2005 - Google-Mart: “There will be the Internet, and then there will be the Google Internet, superimposed on top.”

Robert X. Cringely has, as always, a rather persuading vision of Google and the future of the internet.

(image courtesy of Paul Ford)

Amended data retention plans OK’d in Europe | The Register :

The new draft obliges communications providers to retain all telephone and internet traffic data for a year (phone calls) and six months (internet data), but it also requires governments to compensate businesses for the costs they will incur in so doing.

OWC4life - OWC News:

I just released version 0.2 of the Wordpress PlazesMap plugin that displays a google map with your plazes location on your weblog.

This version handles the offline status better and displays plazes errors if the server returns any.

apophenia: growing up in a culture of fear: from Columbine to banning of MySpace:

I’m tired of mass media perpetuating a culture of fear under the scapegoat of informing the public. Nowhere is this more apparent than how they discuss youth culture and use scare tactics to warn parents of the safety risks about the Internet. The choice to perpetually report on the possibility or rare occurrence of kidnapping / stalking / violence because of Internet sociability is not a neutral position - it is a position of power that the media chooses to take because it’s a story that sells. There’s something innately human about rubbernecking, about looking for fears, about reveling in the possibilities of demise. Mainstream media capitalizes on this, manipulating the public and magnifying the culture of fear. It sells horror films and it sells newspapers.

And let’s not forget that it sells policy too…
(via r-win)

Het Rijksmuseum introduceert het Rijkswidget - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: