Saturday, May 9, 2009

A hairy sea monster was cast ashore


A strange ugly sea monster was cast ashore in Guinea. It was partially decomposed monster has 4 paws, a tail and long fur .


The scientists who examined the creature said that they had already seen such animals before, but they have no clue to their definition.





Source: fishki.net

Friday, May 8, 2009

What are 1 Million People Doing to Their Firefox Browser? Making it Pretty

Recently, Firefox released an update to their Personas experiment, an add-on designed to simplify the process of skinning and theming your Firefox web browser. It's been downloaded 2.5 million times, to date, and currently exceeds 1 million active daily users. The latest version of this add-on finally introduced some fresh themes to the mix, welcoming over 3000 new designers and 5000 new designs. If you haven't heard of Personas before or have ignored them in the past, we think it's time you checked them out.

Personas, Then and Now

Back when Personas launched in late 2007, we liked the idea, but found the initial crop of designs...well..."ugly as sin." Yikes! Since then, the add-on was seemingly ignored for some time, receiving little attention or improvements. Today, that has changed.

When staring at our bland, boring browser this morning, we decided it was time to take a fresh look at the new Personas and see if the theme selection had really improved. As it turns out, it has - and by leaps and bounds.

Although the category list itself is still somewhat limited, we see a few more options than before. But within each category, where there used to be literally only a handful of choices, there are now at least 10 items to choose from as well as a feed that lets you set Firefox to choose a random theme from that category. Still, didn't Mozilla promise us thousands of designs? Where are they?

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