Hitachi Needs Counseling

This Get Perpendicular flash movie is absolutely the most bizarre thing I've seen all year (and yes, I saw the "dolphin-man" episode of South Park). The fact that it was made by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies makes it even more painful. There's just no reason for this to exist. Why explain some new data-storage method in a Schoolhouse Rock-style cartoon, complete with disco music? Why? Now my brain hurts.

Anyway, some former Mozilla employees have left to form a startup called Round Two, which seems to be a reorganization of the MozSource project. Hard to say right now if they will only be developing Firefox extensions, or if they will be releasing a custom version of the browser at some point. Nice looking site, though.

Finally, I ran across a German-made variant of the open-source musikCube called wxMusik. Looks like it functions exactly like Cube, but with tons and tons of superlative content added. Some people might call that "feature-creep" or "bloatware." Not me. But some people.