I don’t know about you, but a few days ago I saw something I hadn’t seen in a looong time: a pop-up! At first it scared me: “OMG Firefox can’t block pop-ups any more”, but it blocked all the others fine… a new kind of pop-up? Today I found this solution on MozillaZine.org: A lot of people have been reporting a new breed of pop-ups on the web. This increasing menace is rooted in the pop-up capabilities of plug-ins like flash and Java. If you’re seeing pop-ups and pop-unders, you’re probably visiting sites that have flash or other plug-ins and those plug-ins...

And I thought Americans were nice!! (sarcasm) Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? By Deborah Davies They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying....

As most of you know, the Pope John Pall II passed away on Saturday after a long illness, aged 84. The pontificate of John Paul II was one of the longest in the history of the Catholic Church. Few popes of any century have had such an impact, either on the Church or the times in which they lived. He saw himself as the universal pastor, using air travel and the mass media to take his message to the world. Familiar routine: Pope John Paul II kissing the ground, this time in Lithuania He became a familiar sight – arriving in another foreign land, kissing the ground, and then preaching at an...

No big news, but I just had to tell you this: I wanted to check if GMail now had 2000MB of storage space, and guess what: it has more! It didn’t stop at 2000MB, it just keeps on going! I already have 2050MB! If you want to see it ‘expanding’ go to www.gmail.com (make sure you’re logged out if you want to see the precise number) DarthTibault

As a wordpress user I thought this had to be reported: “WordPress, an incredibly popular Open Source Blogging system was found to be spamming google by inserting hidden links to junk content on high paying Adsense keywords such as mesothelioma and debt consolidation. Following Threadwatch picking up the story an anonymous Google rep appeared in the original thread admonishing bloggers not to use sneaky tactics to rank highly for “duplicate content” such as the 100,000 hidden articles on the WordPress site. The articles have now dissapeared from Google and it remains to be seen...

Well, I’m back from Rome and do I have news for you :p When I checked my gmail I noticed that I was using 18 MB (1%) of my 1164 MB ?! Wasn’t it 1000MB? I then saw the new features tag, clicked it, and saw gmail is giving everyone one more gigabyte! At the moment of writing, I already have 1271 MB. Another new feature is rich text formatting (finally). From the official site: G is for growth Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn’t mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we’re giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop...