Right at the end of the show - looks like they had a launcher fail... I don't think anyone was hurt.

Link: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5178

How long did this take ? How many times have I ranted about it? If they make one as good as Firefox's updater I'll jump for joy...

small caveat to that is being Adobe the silent updater will probably install the ask toolbar at every update

According to Adobe security chief Brad Arkin, the tool be configurable for end users that want more control of the patching process.

“They can download and then give them the choice to install it, or it can just notify – or you can turn it off completely. And so, by giving users these options, you know, people who have a well managed environment and they’ve got good reason for why they don’t want to install an update.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

Oh god this one had me giggling for a good half hour - and even the positive spin is woefully sad.

Firefox and Chrome have more support for emerging standards like HTML5 and CSS3, but Internet Explorer 8 invested heavily in having world-class, consistent support for the entire CSS2.1 specification.

Grin, like those guys have lasers and cool stuff but we're proudly supporting wooden sticks really really solidly.

Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you'd want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 – right out of the box.

Ha! all the greatest plugins like .... um, well - like search? Isn't that a plugin?

All this FUD made me think of one specific clip..........

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8069686.stm

And that's for holding up the traffic for three hours! - Don't make me come down there after!

Footage has emerged of an angry passer-by pushing a suicidal man off a bridge in Guangdong province.

Link: http://dailygeek.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=2318782&mode=

Well, you knew it had to end sometime. Now there's ads in between some of your songs. Hey, now its almost like regular radio.

Link: http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/11/20/original-7-legged-spider-drawing-sold-for-10000/

This from the WTF department.....

Remember that guy who tried to pay his bill with a drawing of a spider?

Well he has some extra fool around money now as the original drawing just sold on Ebay.

Are we all in the wrong racket or what?

Link: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/chinese-democracy-is-really-here/

I was never a huge fan of the band but figured some of you might be. The real cool part to this story is that because the album actually came out this year. Doctor Pepper owes everyone in America a free soda!

Link: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54940

Players of the Xbox version of the original Duke 3D got a treat with 2 new unreleased screenshots of DNF - Naysayers put away your tinfoil hats - its coming!

After last weeks hype I just thought I'd bring us all down to earth with this clip. And notice the Bigfoot monster has its own bionic sounds! (Conspiracy I tell ya)

I can't believe I used to watch this show... course I was young enough to also have the Bionic man action figure so maybe that excuses me a bit.