Well, it seems that the perpetually downtrodden folks at Netscape have released a version 7.0 preview of their browser. Now it looks like they basically took 6.0 and just added some of the features that Opera already gives you.

The best feature that the 2 big browsers don’t have on Opera is the mouse gestures. No matter how fancy the other 2 get, that is a feature that will keep me using Opera for some time.

Now I use to be a big proponent of IE, and I still think that it is a great browser, but what it doesn’t do is understand how people use the web. It may have the best JavaScript support or CSS support or whatever, but Opera understands how people surf and what is important to people who use the web for more than just checking Hotmail and brwosing Ebay for “Precious Moments” trinkets.

This is what happens when boredom in the workplace combines with hunger exacerbated by a lack of money:

Please don’t let this happen to you or your friends.

The world’s most densely populated country has been besieged by the hot breath of desert winds killing over 600 people, so far. The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has seen temperatures as high as 120 degrees. The heat has affected the elderly and outdoor laborers mostly.

Of course, most Indians can’t afford air conditioning, especially in rural areas, so there is truly no way to beat the heat. So, instead of supplying air conditioning or some relief for the people, the Indian government decides to put together a scientific commision to figure out why it’s so hot. Let’s not actually try to alleviate these people’s sufferings, instead let’s just spend a bunch of money to figure out why they’re dying.

But the fault doesn’t lie totally with the government. These people have legs, for the most part. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t move somewhere cooler, like the Northern part of India. Granted, this heat wave is especially bad, but it gets hot in India every year. Wouldn’t people just get tired of it and move?

That’s the way I feel about the people who die in the floods in Bangladesh (is that still a country?) every year. They know when the floods are coming, they know where they are coming, yet they inexplicably set there homes right in the flood’s path. It’s inconceivable. They ought to put up big signs at the farthest reaches of the floods that say, “Don’t build your house past this line or you’ll die.”

However, all this complaining is easy to die as I sit in a nicely air conditioned office while a nice Armed Forces Day parade marches by outside. Even people in this, the richest of countries, die during heat waves. Perhaps, we, like the Indians, ought to spend less on nuclear weapons and more on making sure our citizens don’t burn up like a forgotten Thanksgiving turkey.

Every day at least eight african-americans, three whites, three gays, three Jews and one Latino become hate crime victims.

Please visit Tolerance.org to learn 10 ways you can fight hate.

The question on everyone’s mind is, “Who is Kelli Carpenter’s baby daddy?” (Well, maybe it wasn’t on your mind, but it is now, so there.) As you may, or may not, know, Carpenter is the girlfriend of Rosie O’Donnell. And after appearing on “The Today Show” and joking that Ozzy Osbourne is the father of her child, people have begun speculating as to the father’s true identity.

I have the answer. Is it David Crosby? No. Is it Steve Bing? Nope. It’s me. Cosbysweater. Why? Because I am an amazing specimen of manliness and sheer hunkitude. And because I am also Rosie’s long lost brother, which means she will not only be the child’s mother, but she’ll also be its aunt.

But why did I come out today, you ask. Because I can’t allow my child to spend its entire lifetime hearing this annoying phrase, “Who’s your daddy?”

Cosbysweater and I were just having a converstation about the best movie spoofs. You know what I’m talking about, Airplane (the first one), The Naked Gun (the first one), Spaceballs…

So let us here it. Tell us your favorite spoof movie and your favorite lines from them.

My fav’s

Airplane:

“Surely you must be joking.”

“No, I’m quite serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”

“Anyone speak Jive?”

“Striker? Striker? STRIKER?”

Guy punches out nearby lady.

So hit the talkback link and tell us your fav’s too!

I’m not a fan of bumber stickers, but I saw one this morning that caught my attention.

It’s a shame stupidity isn’t painful.

Authorities may have finally discovered the reason Dionne Warwick claimed to be a psychic friend. She was rocking the ganj. Also known as marijuana, sess, wacky weed, and other various monikers, this drug is recognized for its propensity to put users in a relaxed, hallucinogenic state.

Warwick, a pop legend and cousin of Whitney Houston (coincidence?), was arrested at Miami International Airport for using a lipstick container to “Walk on By” with 11 suspected marijuana cigarettes. Supporters of the vocalist wondered why one of Warwick’s psychic pals didn’t warn her about the impending arrest. Isn’t that what friends are for?

California congressman Joe Baca wants to make it a federal crime to rent or sell video games showing violence, prostitution and drug use to anyone under the age of 17 without parental consent.

Representatives of the video game industry and a leading retailer call the bill unnecessary and question its legal standing under the United States Constitution’s free-speech provisions.

H.R. 4645 covers eight kinds of explicit in-game depictions, including scenes of

• decapitation and dismemberment
• murder
• car jackings
• illegal drug use
• rape
• prostitution
• assault and other violent crimes

Grand Theft Auto III is a target of this bill. The game shows carjacking, violence against police, drive-by shootings and pedestrians being struck by run away cars.

German lawmakers are debating violence on television and in video games after a 19-year-old student shot dead 16 people at his former school and then killed himself.

I can understand why lawmakers are concerned. They get enough murder and drug use on the nightly news, as well as seeing enough rape in the Catholic Church and prostitution from our congress in the form of “interns.” Why expose kids to this type of behavior in the made-up fantasy world of games when they can see the real thing in their supposed “role models?”

Also at heart is the argument that kids are influenced by video games. People tried to argue that Columbine was brought about by Doom. I guess angst ridden, lonely teenagers who didn’t get attention from their parents had nothing to do with it.

SimCity has been one of the biggest selling games of all times. Which explains where there are tens of thousands of kids entering college as Political Science majors so they can run for mayor of their city. Oh, but that’s not happening, being that Generation X and Generation Y are the least politically active groups in the history of the U.S. I can only gather the reason kids aren’t flocking to architecture and politics is because they aren’t fucking influenced by video games.

More kids are participating in backyard wrestling than any video game associated activity. The only thing video games are doing is making our kids fat when they spend 800 hours a week on the couch trying to beat Timmy’s high score.

I predicted this act of stupidity would take place. In fact, I mentioned it to cosbysweater in IRC when The Fellowship of the Rings came out.

Yes, there is an online petition to have The Two Towers renamed.

May I be the first to say, GET A FUCKING LIFE!

The Lord of the Rings trilogy was written 47 years before the WTC attacks. Was J.R.R Tolkien a prophet? Or is the creator of that petition a dumb ass?

At the time of this post, 1139 people have signed. Or rather, 1139 total imbeciles have somehow figured out how to operate a computer and managed to make their mark with digital feces.

The third installment of the trilogy is called “The Return of the King.” Was Tolkien predicting the return of Elvis? Or is Jesus coming back? If so, then, well, act busy.