Month January 2005

Kapor on Firefox: Let’s not get ahead of ourselves

In an interview with CNET News.com, Mozilla chair Mitch Kapor urged caution about issuing triumphal predictions for the future of the Internet browser landscape. “The great thing that’s happened of late,” Kapor said, “is to see the early huge momentum…

Maui

Waihee Valley hike on a suspension bridge. The area is a tropical rain forest, or close to it. Just two miles away is the ocean. The valleys and ridges here are about the steepest I’ve seen, climbing them off-trail would…

No shit

US ‘erodes’ global human rights Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international law and eroding its role on the world stage, a leading campaign group says. Human Rights Watch says the US can no longer claim to…

Parkinson’s ‘could be linked to pesticides’

Years of research into Parkinson’s has not discovered what causes nerve cells to die in a part of the brain called the substantia nigra. Ageing is a prime factor but a combination of genes and pollutants or pesticides is believed…