Arcade classic Defender has been reimplemented as DEFENDER of the favicon, a game which plays in the favicon in your browser address bar. Only works in Opera and Firefox (with some garbage collection choking in the latter), unfortunately. Still, beyond awesome.

zaydana, on Largest Scientific Projects.

I was intrigued to see the "Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers" article. As I mentioned there, I'd observed that long ago, and giving extra room to heavily-stickered vehicles is one of the cornerstones of safety in my bicycle commuting.

Comment of the day, unfortunately buried under a torrent of projection about how people with Jesus fish are hate-filled bigots who think they're better than other people, is Anne Nonymous.

...once, I and others who pointed out a basic math error in the story all got modded down, but I've never been dinged for insufficient worship of Jimi Hendrix before!

TheRealFixer (and parent), on Web 3.0.

Anonymous Coward on the Amazon outage.

People Listening to This Artist

admspam

(also listening to: Dar Williams)

"This Artist" being King Kobra, of Iron Eagle (Never Say Die) fame.

Apparently there's already a Margaritaville casino under construction in Biloxi, but the Trump Hotel Casino is now being sold to a group that will be turning it into another Buffett-themed casino.

There's a poll topic: Who is the most money-obsessed licenser of his/her name and image?

• Jimmy Buffett
• Rachael Ray
• Peyton Manning
• Krusty the Klown

The OP got hammered from a variety of directions, including by me, but my favorite was leighklotz.

El Lobo on the Mono platform story, with a fantastic analogy in support of a completely misguided point.

I mean, it's like if an icecream maker would like to make icecream on an refrigerator inside an oven.

0xdeadbeef, on Scientology versus British stalker.

trybywrench, on Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs.

Winner of "Questions I No Longer Bother To Ask" is DaveV1.0, wondering why Rob posted a story that he himself notes is awful.

Anonymous Coward, on Blender 2.46.

Anonymous Coward on hobbyist electrical power. jmauro wins the Insightful crown on that story, though.

The process to reorganize the standard libraries for Python 3.0 has been announced, in keeping with Guido van Rossum's dictate to remove "silly old stuff". Deprecated and platform-specific modules make up most of the ones on the chopping block; others had poorly-chosen names, have been made obsolete or just never caught on. Proposals to remove tkinter were shot down.

Reddit commenter larholm's apt description of Debian Bug #477454: Insulting source code

Admittedly, "Severity: serious" may be a bit excessive.