Faster fox

I've just upgraded to FF5 (available here - it's the release candidate), and the main thing that I'm liking about it so far is that it's faster to start up. Not that I restart it that often - it's generally very stable. But it's still nice to have it start up in less than three seconds, even on my laptop. Still not quite as fast as Chrome, but seeing as I still can't alter the default tab behaviour on Chrome, I'm not switching to it any time soon, and it's nice to have FF catching up, speed-wise.

Interesting Links for 19-6-2011

• The Ten-thousand year clock
  (tags: engineering longnow clock future time perspective)
• A long interview with Alan Moore. Always crazy, always interesting.
  (tags: alanmoore interview)
• 25 Movies Boiled Down To One Sentence Apiece
  (tags: movies geekery)
• An awesome suggestion for how to reboot the DC Universe. Sounds better than the stuff I've been reading about elsewhere.
  (tags: DC comics)
• A beautiful mythic tale in comic form.
  (tags: art comic religion mythology)
• There is no evidence that the minimum wage effects unemployment.
  (tags: wages statistics employment)
• A javascript mp3 decoder. Neat. Stutters like mad if I'm doing things in multiple tabs though.
  (tags: javascript mp3 music audio)

Discovery of the day

Typing "Gay", "Lesbian" or "Transgender" into Google makes a little rainbow appear.

via zarabaxter