Browsers

All-around A++++ would link again great move by Microsoft: their Browser For The Better project offers to donate sixteen meals to Feeding America for every user who upgrades from IE6 to IE8.

If any tech-savvy individuals needed one more reason to encourage their grandpas and office IT guys to join the times, this is it. Don’t you sort of want to download IE6 just to upgrade it?

• A lengthly behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Beatles Rock Band game: While My Guitar Gently Beeps. Supplemental materials: the game’s more-or-less entire tracklist, and a hands-on.
• Been waiting all morning to see some ugly, really ugly couches formerly owned by the visionaries behind websites you use everyday? Your wait is over: Where 14 of the top internet businesses were started.
• A 73-year-old Harlem businessman defended himself and his employees from four robbers, neutralizing all four by firing only three shots! Safe to assume New York’s uptown criminals have marked his business with a Do Not Rob tag on their iPhone maps apps.

Bonus editorial commentary

Some deserve second chances: Philadelphia Eagles head coach talks about signing Mike Vick. Other items have had more than sufficient opportunities to get with the program: IE6 Cannot Die.

As anybody who uses browsers knows, Firefox chugs slower and slower with each precious second of use, as if it’s rolling uphill. Its memory hole puts the Ministry of Truth to shame, my friends. Many of us use two browsers because of this… Firefox’s extendability is too good to pass up altogether, but a leaner browser like Opera or Chrome is essential for regular use.

But all is not lost. Here’s a helpful list of problematic extensions to tweak, replace, or avoid. It’s a start!