I wanted to blog these blogs by Mozilla coders a while ago:
David Hyatt‘s is probably the most interesting for people who are interested in developer gripes, while Matthew Thomas‘s blog is interesting if you care about things like The top ten usability problems in Mozilla.
Once you’ve read a bunch of the Mozillian blogs, you might find this one funny.
Top Ten Who’s Who gives insights into the characters from Alan Moore and Gene Ha’s terrific ensemble cast cop series set in a surreal city where everyone is a superhero.
Also, under their entry for Shock Headed Peter, are several links to Heinrich Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter , a ghastly “classic children’s story” (actually a series of horror fables in verse about misbehaving children). The entry points out that one of these, The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb, inspired the villains in Grant Morrison’s first issue of Doom Patrol:
Sjoerd Visscher has a link to a neat hack which gives you basic WYSIWYG editing in Mozilla, by using Javascript to mimic Internet Explorer’s ContentEditable property.
This was developed by a company called Q42, who are developing something called Xopus.
The postapocalyptic horror of Shadowrun finally hits me.
Not only is this a world where the the global population has been decimated by plague, war, famine and eco-disasters, not only is this a place where a sizable precent of humanity has mutated into Trolls, Dwarves, Orks and Elves, not only is North America a balkanized warzone threatened by corporate interests and dark magic.
[ see this timeline for details ]
Oh no. The true horror is this:
That tablecloth of terror has replaced the tasteful flags of both the USA and Canada, according to this page.
Makes you want to go out and frag something…
Images That Still Don’t Suck, an archiver of images posted to usenet. Found this while looking for Pinky and the Brain pics.