DISQUS

Wow, I didn't at all catch your tone of irony; apologies for the somewhat serious response.

I actually see the Open Web as an ideology and philosophy, that by keeping these technologies open we have a chance to build a non-controlled, non-proprietary, dynamic system that can evolve and react to change differently than any other organizational system that exists outside of nature.

I disagree with Rob that the Open Web is purely a technical concern, as the sociological impacts are far-reaching, perhaps moreso than the technological ones. I think that it's the illustration of those impacts that observers and analysts like yourself can make clearer.

I'm not sure I disagree with your conclusion, but I don't think it's supported by the presence of bracelets; I also don't know if a bracelet makes a social movement. I think Jodie's right on the money, there.

The bracelets were made as part of a Mozilla Developer Day event IIRC, and we had a lot of extras, and have been handing them out at events ever since. Supporting open standards and the open web is obviously something that's important to Mozilla, and I believe the intent of the bracelets was a to provide a fun way for developers to show solidarity.

Mostly, though, I think saying that the Open Web is a social movement *because* we have bracelets is a little insulting to all of the other efforts underway. Bracelets are advertising and awareness tools; one hopes that seeing someone wearing the bracelet will spur questions and their answers, or allow people involved to more readily identify their involvement. Social movements like the open web are built on action.

I'd rather see you discussing the Open Web movement in terms of actions and benefits than in terms of how we're at the same level of "Live Strong" publicity gimmicks.

Hey Dave - I just sent you a CSV of the download numbers for our first 24hrs, but you can also see it as a table by going to the Download Day web page and turning off Javascript (Options > Content) and reloading the page.

Hey Jesper ... you can see the list of blocked add-ons and extensions here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/blocklist/

We didn't block Flash yet because of a bug where we're not offering the right package for upgrade. This is a release blocker for us, but in the meantime, we didn't want to put users in a situation where we'd block Flash and then make it impossible to upgrade it :)

Also, you might want to look here: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting to see what our Blocklisting policy is.

+1.

BTW, lookit - you totally made the Canadian news and stuff, eh?

That really is quite lovely. Thanks for sharing, John.

Open Web Weekly
X-Ray (see what's going on inside)
MRI (Mozilla Revealed Inside!)
Foxhunt
Open
focus()
Bytes from the Bazaar
Lizard's Digest
The Review Queue

Further testing and talk with Stuart revealed: Firefox 3 does kerning, Safari doesn't, so it will always look a little different. However, Safari shows it the same way across Tiger and Leopard, and on Leopard Firefox 3 shows the fonts as squooshed.

Filed bug 400717.

Hm. For some reason it seems to look OK on Firefox 3 w/OSX Tiger but not on Firefox 3 w/OSX Leopard (I just did a side by side comparison with the same build).

I'd be keen to borrow that one, if you're looking for a place to lend it :)

I'm also quite eager to see King Corn when it hits the local theatres.

Hells, yes.

I basically calculate that - without lunch and coffee breaks - I have 3 hours of an average workday in which I can actually sit down and work. It doesn't give a lot of time for reflective thought, and that bothers me a little.

I'll be interested to hear what you have to say. There've been a lot of good lifehackerish posts on how to manage information, but so far, for me, it's come down to an art of skimming and trying to pick up on patterns in my various in and outboxes.

Gee, I wonder if you're the one who looks just like SPL! ;)

Also, make it unstructured. A lot of PE classes were about teaching the drills and techniques to make people good basketball players, good volleyball players, etc, etc. Instead, I think a more attractive PE class would be one which began with some learning about stretches and various exercises that can be used to work different muscle groups (ie: bring a bit of actual "physical education" into PE) and then destructured into groups. The teacher could lead a lesson on a certain sport -- even have that be mandatory one day in five -- but then the rest of the time would be to allow students to do any physical thing they wanted. If they only like floor hockey, then fine. If another group wants to spend the time training for distance running, then fine. Challenge the monotony of "everyone plays dodgeball" with the statement of "everyone does something physical" and see if that changes interest levels.

I bet it would.

Congrats! Cash not stock? :)

As a frequent traveller, I bet I'm not alone in saying: fuck the meal, just give me the standard meal and the bigger goddamned seat.

And the free booze.

Another vote for jub.net here ... three letter domain names are soooo cool.

lillyandhowe.com/net/org?
planetjubjub?

Here's a direct link to the haikus.

I wonder if it would be even more helpful to lock those tabs to the left side of your tabstrip, such that they never scrolled out of view ...

I, for one, welcome my new co-ordinating and driving overlord ...

God, the stereo in that van blows.