links for 2010-01-11

The video is also pretty interesting. Too bad it's part of a podcast & not available for direct online viewing.

Quite a collection from various sources

Really imaginative bunch

Handy extension to make extensions compatible with alpha and beta versions of Firefox, and also report any incompatibilities.
'After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you're using. If you notice that one of your add-ons doesn't seem to be working the same way it did in previous versions of the application, just open the Add-ons Manager and click Compatibility next to that add-on to send a report to Mozilla.'

Briefs on some famous science fiction authors and their beliefs