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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTFpAL7Rfww&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Firefox 3.5 is fast, no doubt there. These guys are too, fast at what they do. So, it’s only fit that Mozilla feature them on it’s [Fastest Firefox][2] campaign site. The world’s fastest clapper, [Kent French.][3] [Watch the Video][4] The world’s fastert sport stacker, [Steven Purugganan][5]. [Watch the Video][6] The world’s fastest benjo player, [Todd Taylor.][7] [Watch the Video][8] The world’s fastest talking female, [FranCapo][9]. She was the lady in main video doing the intro. ...

Who said common names can’t sell? [Candy.com][2] was bought by G&J Holdings for a whopping USD 3million from the “Domain King”, [Rick Schwartz][3]. WOW!! What does G&J Holdings do? Nothing but candies. A massive selection, from old to new and they’re all online. On the downside, they don’t do international orders. This si something to note. There’s no domain too short, too simple, too plain or too common. If you wait they will come…….. ...

This surely comes as good news to all Ubuntu fans out there. [Canonical][2] today made Launchpad open source under the GPLv3 license. [As promised][3]. If you didn’t already know, Launchpad is a project hosting and collaboration platform for software which provides access through its web interface or through its APIs. Users simply need an account to enjoy the suite of services provided by the then close sourced platform. Bug tracking, code hosting, code review, packaging, translation and community support. Everyone has their project space and the ability to easily distribute their packages through [PPA][4]s. ...

Yup, you read that right. Big boy Microsoft submitted 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel community for review and inclusion into the Linux kernel tree. All under the GPLv2 license. The code, made up of 3 Linux drivers will enable all flavours for Linux to run on Windows 2008 through it’s Hyper-V hypervisor technology. Providing better cross platform/vendor support and performance gains. Well, I guess even the giant now realises that it’s time to come out and share. Doing it alone doesn’t quite work any more. The community really does have a voice that gets heard! ...

WordPress 2.8.2 is out. It fixes an important XSS vulnerability. Make sure to upgrade quick before you get hijacked…. Either perform an auto update by going to " tools -> upgrade -> upgrade automatically " or upgrade the old fashion ways by [downloading WordPress][2]. Source: [WP][3] [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wordpresslogo.jpg) [2]: http://wordpress.org/download/ [3]: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/