Wow! Mozilla Weave is a PHP application that you can run on your own server. Weave lets you sync data - bookmarks, passwords, and more - between Firefox on separate computers. HT: Untangling the Web with Mozilla Weave.

Syncing passwords and bookmarks is old hat. Mozilla Weave, a Mozilla Labs project is a tool designed to let you sync everything down to your tabs and do it securely.

If you read one article about the ingredients in Vaccines today, it should be this one. While it starts out as a bit of a rant, I did learn about the importance of dosages of supposedly harmful ingredients. And, some of these "toxic chemicals", including NaCl, are in other everyday things that you may already be eating/drinking. Cue the scary music!

This is just plain ignorant. If you want to see the difference between an education over a weekend or two at Google University and actually understanding medicine, look no further than the above. Neomycin and polymixin are indeed antibiotics. They're used in the manufacture of vaccines. Specifically, antibiotics like this are usually used to prevent bacterial contamination and overgrowth during cell culture and the growth of the viruses. After the manufacturing process there often remain trace amounts of these antibiotics.

All the facts are made more entertaining by wonderful gems like the following.

Not only did Dawn not stop digging when she was in a hole, but she got out a freakin' backhoe. Heck, she did more than that. She got out the dynamite and started blasting. No, even that's not enough. She actually decided to start digging by detonating thermonuclear weapons of stupid.

I've written before about using Microsoft's IE Application Compatibility Images with VirtualBox. These images provided a very convenient, and free, way to setup testing environments in all versions of Internet Explorer.

The images, since they are free copies of Windows, expire after a time, requiring you to download a new image. The latest images provided by Redmond, require activation if you use VirtualBox, or probably any other virtualization environment instead of VirtualPC, which is windows-only. Whether or not this is intentional is hard to say, but I don't think that it is.

If you have the old images, it seems like you can keep using them. The only limitation I've run into is that the machine shuts down after an hour. For web-development work, that's been sufficient time for me to test and fix web broswer rendering bugs.

To keep up to date, you can follow this thread on virtualbox.org, or Pete Lepage's blog, he's "Product Manager, Internet Explorer, Developer Division." and is trying to track down a solution.