[SpikeMon] FireFox nuggets, Pixelate the porn, Christmas Facts #36, #35, #34

TechTarget interviewed Kevin Yank, technical editor for the upcoming book FireFox Secrets.  It's your typical, lets promote a book type of interview, but in all fairness it is laced with links to all the cool plugin's.  For example, IE7 is making a big splash with all their new upcoming features inspired from FireFox, including a tab to overview all other tabs.  I knew it wouldn't be long before FireFox had it sorted, and in they do, in the form of the Viamatic foXpose extension.

• http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1146000,00.html

Engadget spotted this story last week with the company PixAlert on first pass seems to be taking the fun out of bad-boy surfing, by detecting naughty images and blurring them from recognition.  This is in an effort to clean up the office environment and to stop the various law suits that may arise from looking at the naked flesh.  However, as you dig deeper, I think its just one big scam to allow network administrators to find the really good stuff.  As an image is detected, while the user see's a blurred version, the administrator gets to see a fully rendered thumbnail complete with a record of where it was downloaded and who.  Well, we always knew Big Brother had a secret stash under his bed!

• http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=2423

Countdown to Christmas Facts 36, 35 and 34:
Charles Dickens' initial choice for Scrooge's statement "Bah Humbug" was "Bah Christmas." Before settling on the name of Tiny Tim for his character in "A Christmas Carol," the following was also considered, Little Larry, Puny Pete, and Small Sam. After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote several other Christmas stories, one each year, but none was as successful as the original.
Courtesy of http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/xmastrivia.html

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