SnipIT -- email text snippets from IE

Nice add-on: select some text on the web page you want to send to someone, then right-click on it and choose "send using Outlook" or "send using Gmail" or Yahoo, etc., a nicely-formatted email pops up, ready to go, with the page title, the text quote you specified, and a link to the page. It's the genteel way to let someone know about a web page they should visit.

Law Firm Uses Copyright Claim To Say You Can't View Its Website's HTML Source

If they're serious, I feel sorry for them.

Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records

"An anonymous reader writes to let us know that Verizon Wireless is planning to share its customers' calling records (called CPNI) with "our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries." Holy crap!

How to open multiple sites in separate tabs each time you start Firefox

Oh Come On: British Performing Rights Society Wants to Outlaw 'Making Hearable'

That sound you hear is the record companies' fingernails as they try to stop their rapid descent down the smooth, steep incline of obsolescence.

DriveImage XML

"DriveImage XML enables you create a complete backup image of any logical drive or partition, allowing to to restore your entire operating system along with installed programs, user settings, registry and all. "

Technology could enable computers to 'read the minds' of users

"Applying non-invasive and easily portable imaging technology in new ways, they hope to gain real-time insight into the brain’s more subtle emotional cues and help provide a more efficient way to get work done."

case-sensitivity in *nix

In troubleshooting a robots.txt problem, it became known that case-sensitivity is an issue, which prompted me to write:

"I know I'm just a simple Windows boy, but I don't get the whole case thing... is it *really* an advantage to have both foo.ext and FOO.ext (and foO.ext and fOO.eXt etc. etc.) able to exist in the same folder? To me it's nothing but confusing -- and as my grandpappy used to say: "complexity begets error". And it causes extra keyboarding (*nix people have stronger SHIFT fingers, eh?), and extra confusion/effort when talking about files" 'eff oh capital-oh dot eee capital-ex tee'."