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MozillaZine Celebrates 5th Anniversary
An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine, the Mozilla news and advocacy site, is five years old today. They've got a fifth anniversary section, containing a message from their founder, a chronology (which makes a pretty good Mozilla timeline generally), some trivia (who's bright idea was Music to Code By?!) and an acknowledgements page. I think it's amazing that a free site like this has provided such a great service to the open-source community for half a decade. Cheers!"
Wonder what I should bring as a present to the party.... Lets see, 5th anniversary... Thats paper or wood gifts right?
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There was a Reported shortage of Godzilla heads at Spencers this week. Now I understand!
5 years = 1.5778463 x 10^20 picoseconds. I love Google's calculator.
I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.
We are talking about a party for Godzilla types here: No Flamable Gifts!
then with a slashdotting?
Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins. Check 'em out @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
Okay, I'll bite. What the hell is daylight?
... an honorary promotion to version 2.0. ;) /*hoping the mods are in good humor today.*/
I've thought long and hard about the Internet phoenominon known as "Mozilla," or more frequently, "Open-Source Fascist Dinosaur - a name aptly deserved, taking into consideration the political philosophies of its filthy hippie developers and its inability to load even the simplest page before the sun goes supernova. During this thinking-period, which I like to call "the long thought," I have thunk up many thoughts, and I feel that these think-thoughts need to be shared.
Mozilla scares me. I often use Mozilla to browse through pornography late at night, and I often have a difficult time maintaining an erection. The thought of manipulating a Reptile-based browser to view naked females has left me caught in a situation where I can only climax if I envision The Lizard performing disgusting sexual acts upon these nude men... women on my screen.
Nightmares often occur after I pass out in my ergonomically-correct office chair - which I stole from Office Depot late at night - exhausted from the sexual fervor of masturbating my inch-long penis. These nightmares center around an unescapable arena, in which Roman females are cast upon the bloody sand, and left victim to a large creature known only as "The Lizard." Its code-bloated reptile penis repeatedly punctures their fragile sex organs until they split in half, and are then eaten.
I blame Mozilla for my unemployment, lack of a love life, and the constant backfiring from the 351 V8 in my primer-colored 1973 Ford Crown Victoria LTD. I also blame Mozilla for the lack of acceleration in my vehicle, much comparable to the overall lack of acceleration in the browser itself. I believe that Mozilla is in dire need of a rebuilt carburetor and a new set of shorty headers.
Unless massive improvements are made to the Mozilla code base and user interface, I can forsee the continual erosion of my personal life and the lives of all other Mozilla users.
Please, help.
Y'know... when you've been up until 4am debugging somebody else's badly written code, you finally get to sleep, and the garbage truck / noisy neighbour / dog next door wakes you up a few hours later. You get up, open the curtains, and this strange, transluscent, yellow stuff filters into your room.
That's daylight.
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Just as a curio, the linked page features as the second selection Wesley Willis - who sadly passed away just a little while ago on the 21st of August, aged 40. I also used to listen to Wesleys strange stream of conciousness punk rants while coding. I'll miss you, Wes.
-- YLFI
One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.