Tristan Nitot has the map of Firefox adoption. Britain is at 15.8%. Yeah, that sucks. Britain really isn't ready for, err, innovation, security and extensibility. We far prefer to have shitty software so that we can complain about it when it doesn't work. That said, I'd like to see this map with personal and business percentages added. Internet Explorer seems to be mostly a business problem rather than a home user problem where switching costs are lower. The Firefox folks should send me a big stash of Firefox CDs and I'll be happy to distribute them to people. 

Father Dan has an amusing post about a pony doll with a great warning. 

The Office Open XML format has been approved by ECMA. Oh boy, the day when we can run XSLT over Office files will be cool. 

Want to become an htaccess master? Read this. 

There's an interesting discussion over at Shawn Anthony's place about liberal Christianity - specifically, it's utter inanity. 

James Randi has some real cranky stuff this week - a woman who sells bottled water with "sound essences", bad martial arts, James Van Praagh communicating with the spirit of Marilyn Monroe through her hair curlers, Scientologists and the London coppers, and the Catholic Church has declared St. Isidore of Seville as the patron saint of the Internet. 

Yesterday, the BBC uncovered a Metropolitan Police report which states the bleeding obvious: knife amnesties don't work. 

Tom Coates has found this unintentionally funny website called Oxbridgelife.