Spirit: I was so gonna show you the DRM of Copyright Past, but you totally wasted my time with your music infringement… Rudy: Satire!
Via Hugh McGuire.
Galacticast: A Copyright Carol
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A Tax Break We Might Actually Notice
From “New year brings tax savings for Canadians and businesses“:
According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, most Canadian families can expect to reduce their tax burden by well over $1,000 by the end of 2008 due to the combined savings from a lower GST, lower federal income taxes and provincial measures.
There are always two sides to a story, but I can’t say I’ll be sad to keep a bit more of what we earn.
Vinismo, the Free (as in Beer AND Speech) Wine Guide
From the Vinismo homepage:
Vinismo is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide of all wines in the world. Its Wiki technology lets people like you freely create and modify its pages. So far we have 14,959 articles written and edited by wine lovers from around the globe.
Another great (multilingual) wiki-based project brought to us by Evan Prodromou and co.
WordPress 2.3.2 Security Update
From the WordPress Blog:
WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these disclosures.
Stop! Update time! Ta dadada tada tada. Update time!
Done! Painless.
Update: Here’s Peter Westwood’s “WordPress 2.3.2 in detail“, with backlinks to addressed Trac tickets.
End of Support for Netscape Web Browsers
From: “End of Support for Netscape web browsers – The Netscape Blog“:
Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.
Sniff… But only in a nostalgic kinda way. It’s the right decision, and I praise AOL for advising their users to move to Firefox. Now please please pleeeeeze just do the same for AIM/ICQ, in favour of the Jabber protocol (XMPP), and we’ll be on a roll!
While I’m on the browser subject, everybody’s favourite Factory Joe (aka Chris Messina) has a great post touching on the rising trend of site specific browsers and the state of the Mozpad project (and by association, XUL).
And since I’m in the subject chaining mood, check out Spicebird, a new neat Mozilla-based collaboration suite coming to us from India.
