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If you were waiting for the first security patch before giving Firefox 3 a try, as I was, it was released last night around 6:15p Eastern. So Firefox 3.0.1 is here. I like it. It seems a bit faster. Nothing I can definitely put my finger on, just a sense of pages loading quickly and smoothly. The up...

Not fiction, but the audiobook of Eiger Dreams is read by the author. Same guy who wrote Into Thin Air. This is a collection of essays on mountaineering. Lots of interesting topics: profiles of the guys who fly rescue planes on Denali, the free-climber John Gill, etc. It's very, very good. I haven't...

You know that radio voice, that does things like ads for monster truck rallies etc? Way over the top voice? In the DC/Baltimore area, a decade or so ago, there was a concert at one of the big arenas, and in the ads for that concert The Voice would intone: “Many bands play rock-n-roll. Only one band ...

Top Gear on BBC America. Brilliant.

So no Alan Moore beyond Watchmen? So you've got to read League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1 and 2, which is the only two worth reading. Another really excellent series by Alan Moore is TopTen: http://www.amazon.com/Top-Ten-Book-Alan-Moore/dp/1563896680 http://www.amazon.com/Top-Ten-Book-Alan-Moore/...