Tag: COMMENTARY

There's slim pickings from the Mozilla camp this week. Other than the release of Lorentz (3.6.4) (out of process plugins!!), there's really nothing Firefoxy to report on. Instead, we're going to roll the Firefox column into another topic starting with the letter 'F': Facebook. Still, hang in there: I'm going to do my best to dredge up some useful and interesting bits for Firefox. There's even a ...

Oh Ed Bott, what would we do without you? Seriously. Amidst the 1.3 trillion "black screen error" posts recently published on every blog in the Milky Way, Ed's breakdown today was the first to really dig in to the reality behind Prevx's claims that recent Windows 7 patches were rendering systems totally unusable. You might have wondered why you didn't read about the "story" earlier this ...

Ah, Evony. Sweet, sweet Evony. Chances are if you've been online for more than a day or two and you dare step outside the sandbox of Gmail or Facebook and into the seedy underbelly of the beast, you'll have seen the Evony ads. Take a good, long look at the advert to the right --> OK. Now what're you thinking? BOOBS? Voyeuristic pleasures of the flesh? 'You know, it looks like she's ...

Okay, this post is admittedly off-topic, but I'm willing to bet that we have a sizable number of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans here at Download Squad. If I'm right, then all of you MST3K fans will be thrilled to find out that Mike Nelson - the comic genius behind MST3K - has launched a new site called RiffTrax, where he provides an audio commentary track to mainstream films that you can ...