There has been lots of helpful feedback to our public beta of the new Mozilla.org website.
We’ve fixed many of the issues that arose during the beta and we’re aiming to launch the new site tomorrow evening (Tuesday, Aug 31). This is a final call for critical issues before we launch. Feedback can be posted on this MozillaZine thread. Thanks!
The website beta lives at website-beta.mozilla.org.
My brother is selling his crazy-cool custom street bike
MSNBC has a good slideshow from the New York anti-war/anti-Bush protests and Kottke has video of the Bikes against Bush guy getting arrested during an interview with Ron Regan
I was contacted this week by Alexander Klimetschek, who has built on the work of Hal Hockersmith to get finally get out a version 0.3 of the Luna Blue Theme for Mozilla Thunderbird.
My motivation for working on this theme was purely selfish, and now that I’m running Linux instead of Windows, I don’t have that motivation anymore. Fortunately, others have picked up the slack.
This version should work with Thunderbird 0.7.
Download/Install Luna Blue (v0.3) for Mozilla Thunderbird
lunablue-thunderbird-0.2.jar – 703Kb RAR File
UPDATE: Alexander Klimetschek has created an updated version of this theme (Download v0.4) as mentioned in this comment.
I know this won’t make any difference, but it’s worth a shot: I am not maintaining this theme anymore. I’ve just posted it here as a convenient location for people to find it.
I also paint! (that’s really all I did, and my arm got sore…)
The excellent instant-messaging program/project, Gaim, could use a new logo. It would need to be something simple and elegant that works well as a little 16-pixel system-tray icon, as a full-size application icon, in larger spots (login screen, about dialog, etc.) and in other locations with status symbols with the icon (offline, busy, etc.).
Here’s the current Gaim logo dude and a screenshot of a folder that shows some of the other ways the logo is currently used.
Gaim is becoming quite popular as an instant messaging client. It is already widely used on Linux, and I think it could catch on like Firefox on windows too.
I wish I had more time to help, but I thought I’d try to spread the word. If you are interested in helping, join the Gaim-devel mailing list.
Update: It turns out the Gaim guys are still pretty happy with the little one-armed man. Still it can’t hurt to try some new things.
This month in WIRED Magazine’s Wired/Tired/Expired:
| Wired | Firefox |
| Tired | Mozilla |
| Expired | Explorer |
Where I’ve been in the last 12 months
I’ve written a review of the McSweeney’s book, The Future Dictionary of America, and the accompanying CD, Future Soundtrack for America.
As I state in the review, I’m a bit creeped-out by the politics and slightly-too-hip-ness of it all. That said, this is a good CD.
Here’s a sample definition from The Future Dictionary of America:
seven dollar socialist [$7 soh’-shul-ist] n. an activist, usually found in wealthy, liberal cities like San Francisco, whose high tax bracket income affords him or her the luxury of their rabid, liberal views. Ex.: an Ipod-carrying, Jetta-driving, organic-tomato-eating protester waving a placard reading Socialism Now while waiting in line to buy a $7 sandwich at Bi-Rite. – NOAH HAWLEY
A kindly office-mate commented that with the twelfth session of Acts of Volition Radio, it has crossed the threshold of novelty. It is now all about the music and commentary, not so self-conscious about being a new medium. Perhaps like when webloggers stop talking about weblogs and just start talking to each other. Nice.
Here then, keeping the novelty alive, is not so much a behind-the-scenes look as a photo of my kitchen table where I sometimes record Acts of Volition Radio. Also, here is what an almost-finished session looks like in my audio editing program.
For an actually behind-the-scenes kind of look, see the Acts of Volition Radio Frequently Asked Questions.
