Technology

The long-awaited and much lauded Firefox 3 is set to launch on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. To celebrate this, the folks at Spread Firefox! have declared that to be World Download Day. They're going to shoot for the Guinness World Record for most software downloaded in a single 24-hour period.

One of the upsides of getting older is not being able to remember if I saw something before, so it's just as funny when I come across it again. Take this, for example:

1. Goto to Google
2. Enter Find Chuck Norris
3. Click "I'm Feeling Lucky"

Yesterday, I went down to exchange Christmas presents with Jessika and Dustin. They gave me a really awesome aluminum and rubber chainmail dice bag from The Chainmaille Wench. It's large enough to hold some seventy d20, which would make it a frightening weapon. I gave their daughter Logan her very own plush Wee Ninja, which she immediately fell in love with. For her writing, I gave Jessika a handmade blank journal with the initials of her website on the spine. And finally, so we could settle our long-standing argument over ninjas and pirates like men, I gave Dustin the R/C Pirate vs Ninja set. As it turns out, his superior abilities with the remote controls led the ninja to victory. Here are some pictures:

Ever sit back and think about what music would go best with a book you're reading? Recently, podcast novelist J. C. Hutchins asked his fans on twitter to help him figure out what songs worked best with his 7th Son Trilogy. Several suggestions (including a couple from yours truly) and some iTunes magic later, we have the "7th Son" Soundtrack.