Madrid is Burning

A freakin' skyscraper almost burned to the ground in Madrid yesterday, and now they're worried about it collapsing entirely. Take a look at the really eerie AP photos that BBC News posted.

This AlphaGrip controller is just freaky. I can't imagine ever getting comfortable using that thing. Maybe if it didn't have a tiny plastic trackball for mouse control. Hey guys, how about an analog stick? They're not expensive.

It looks like Mozilla Update is finally working again. For whatever reason, it wasn't updated from December 24th until late last week. And speaking of Mozilla, we're roughly a week away from passing 25 million Firefox 1.0 downloads, having passed 24 million today. Firefox users unofficially outnumber AOL subscribers now, as Asa noted last week that AOL has dropped to 22.2 million paid subscriptions.