I still haven’t found to listen to more than the intro song, but the existence and production values of this podcast really makes the long-tail point. “Li-ivin’ in aluminum…”

My brother’s a Ph.D.! I’m so proud!

The Mozilla world is abuzz with emotional statements about the fate of XULRunner, the technology stack Firefox is built on, in particular as a reaction to Mitchell Baker’s post on the topic, and Chris Messina’s video rant.

I’ll blog about this one at some point, but the one I wanted to mention here is this one, which is a good read for people who want to build better tools to let normal people make computers “do stuff”.

Research phase at work. Here are some of the things I’m looking at: