Internet Explorer

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.

3. Seeing these two things within like five minutes of each other: Digg would prefer to not put up with IE6 and Digg is among the slowest 11% of all websites. Did this amuse anybody else?
2. Four dozen husbands
1. Via Rafi Kam: Flaming Garbage Cans in Hip-Hop Videos. What more could you ever ask for?

Special bizarre bonus: In many markets, coming up with a catchy piece of linkbait isn’t all that difficult. But the big, strange market of SEO people selling SEO stuff to other SEO people is different. It’s pretty much all been seen and done, daily. But every now and then somebody gets just weird enough…