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"Weird Al" Yankovic did not create every parody ever.

Weird Al never wrote or song that song ("Windows 95 Sucks"), that was Bob Rivers.

Please, do us (especially Weird Al himself) all a favour and stop downloading your music from Limewire.

People steal music. Morons inject poorly tagged/named music into those channels for various reasons (they change the artist to one they are familiar with, to promote their band, or to promote a band they like, they are lazy when transferring from CD, and so on).

For example:

http://free.house.cx/~eil/etc/notal_list.html

What do they show? At least as far as I am concerned, the "95% of the people use IE" is a myth, a lie, a marketing gimmick, whatever you want to call it.

The following numbers come from one of my web pages in which the audience is arguably more diverse than any of yours.

All these numbers are from February, i.e. as fresh as they can be.

My numbers come from the last 2 1/2 years and total over 38,000 visits.

92% -- Internet Explorer 5.x, 6.x
4.4% -- Netscape 4.x, 6.x, 7.x
3.4% -- Mozilla 1.x
1.1% -- Unknown

Hmm, you may be right. IE market share is not, in fact, 95%.

I love ESR's comment about "with a screen this big, who needs a pager?" on that tiny little porthole he's got. Me, I have 3200x1200 with two 3x1 pagers in Enlightenment. Screenshots here (the first few are from when I was on solaris or early linux, look at the last few).

If they're not using XDM themes, then I want to know why not.

That XDM themes seems to have stalled just before 2.0 release is irrelevant!

(Yes, it's a .cx domain. No, it's not what you think it is. Judge all .com by microsoft.com do you?)

I'm actually surprised that they ever went with Sawfish, since it has all sorts of nifty extras (differently themed windows, for example). From the two screenshots I was able to find of Metacity, it looked like a bland Gnome. Given that Sun was a major purveyor of CDE and olwm, I'm not the least bit surprised that they've switched to a tamer wm. I still think they're missing out, but I guess the philosophy behind the decision is "these machines are made for work, not glitz." Not for me...I use Gnome + E .16 at work....single monitor (makes me wish for my dual-head box at home...) with the same desktop look and feel as my home desktop (see more recent shots).

XDM at house.cx They have docs and some themes, like those you talk about with things placed in funny areas (B5 ones, for example).

Matrox is actively supporting its line of dual-head cards under Linux and various flavors of Windows. There may also be *bsd support as well, but not being a bsd user, I didn't pay attention. I'm running a Matrox G450 under Red Hat 7.2 (upgraded from 7.1) with two ViewSonic E771 17" by .26 monitors in merged display mode and it is phenomenal. I had to use their tech support list to get it working, but it only took a few days...mostly because I'd ask the question from work, try the solution at home, and then follow up at work. See the screen shot (2560x1024 .jpg image, 10485992 bytes).

seem to disagree with your POV. I'm admittedly biased, (see my site, but I'm not the only one. In fact, I'd much prefer to have the web designer set the background color, as very often you run across sites that assume you have your default background color set to white, so there main logo is black text with a drop shadow on a white rectangle--which looks like crap if your background color is grey (default UNIX Netscape) or light blue or tan.

Admittedly people need to be careful and judicious when designing pages. Putting red text on a fractal background image or lime green text on an off blue background are evil. If you want to try overriding somebodie's site with images=off background=grey text=black, good luck, but you may find the site to be an ugly mess.

Micheal is appearently having a bad day, so, like anyone who isn't from there would do, he's taking it out on Canada.

See, no reason to get your panties in a knot about it, it's the natural thing to do.