A good initial side-by-side comparison of Firefox 3 and Firefox 2.

iBanjo, after 12 years of observing the software industry, concludes that there are only two types of programmers in the world, and uses Pareto principle (80-20) to explain his theory.

One of Hillary Clinton’s main arguments against Barack Obama is that she is more experienced for the job of US President. Well, if GW can make it happen for two terms, then can’t anyone be experienced to be the US President? But, this line by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says it all:

Hillary Clinton: “With all due respect,” she told a crowd in Iowa. “I don’t think living in a foreign country between the ages of 6 and 10 is foreign policy experience.”

Maureen Dowd: But is living in the White House between the ages of 45 and 53 foreign policy experience?

After the recent PS3 price cut, Sony has now halved the price of the software development kit which designers require for creating games on the Playstation. With more and more companies shifting focus to develop games for the Wii, looks like things are not looking very good for Sony Playstation. Maybe they should just open source the SDK, but even that might not help Sony at this point as it’s more difficult and expensive to develop games for the PS3.

Due to a Vodafone lawsuit in Germany, challenging T-Mobiles exclusivity to sell iPhones, T-Mobile is allowing German customers to buy unlocked iPhones for 999 euros($1477). Corporate greed in the mobile phone industry is simply out of control!

A new page on digg now let’s you see all digging activity by the 2008 US presidential candidates, add them as a friend to show support and to check out their profiles. Looks like Republican Candidate Ron Paul is the most popular on Digg.

Places, a fabulous new way to look at photos by place on Flickr. If you have been placing your photos on the Flickr map, then your photos could be showing up in this new view, if not, then time to get busy. There is also a new Map view, where you can see the latest stuff happening on Flickr.

Looks like a nice tool for creating favicons online and includes crop tool.

Unchanging Times is an interesting blog, which tries to prove that everything new is old, but taking a current news from New York Times, and digging up a similar news from the New York Times archives.

A simple step-by-step tutorial on how to create a Christmas tree pop up card for the Christmas season.

Robert Scoble’s MacBookPro crashes while updating, and he gives Apple a piece of his mind.

“And so, now I’m back on my Windows machine.
Screw you Apple and your ads saying you’re better than Microsoft. Screw you. Screw you. Screw you.”

Foxnewsporn.com, a parody site showcasing porn videos and images shown on Fox News, which made it to Digg front page was initially removed by Digg and the poster’s user account deleted. But, now Digg founder Kevin Rose has unbanned the post and apologized. This response from Digg is funny, what were they thinking?!

“Yes, that submission was Adult content. Yes, it was against our TOS, even though it was broadcast on FOX.”

AT&T now lets you remove your iPhone EDGE/Data plan, reducing your monthly cost by $20. This will also remove visual voicemail, and text messaging. This will be good for people who use WIFI more than edge, and don’t really care about visual voicemail.

A article looking into studies conducted by Dr. Couzin and his colleagues to uncover the simple rules governing animal swarms from ants to humans.

MSNBC creative director Ashley Wells gives an inside look at the various design phases the new MSNBC site went through to get to the new design. All that thinking and designer input, and they could not figure out how to get rid of the annoying and absurd menus! But they did think of the option to turn it off, search for “Disable Fly-out”, and click on the link to turn of the annoying flyout menus.

Overall the new design looks good with all the whitespace, but who thought of the show 0 stories, that’s funny! Functionally, probably compact news sites like bbc work much better than news sites with lot of whitespace.