Why the hell weren't these publicly available to begin with? I see the article says "put online"; what does that mean? Were they available, just limited to microfilm or something like that? I hope they were freely available before.

Japan outlawed political candidates from using Twitter 59 years ago, eh?

Neglect due to interest in World of Warcraft.

NFS really is the best host out there for smaller sites. I use them to host a small message board (about a hundred members, maybe a dozen of which are active at any given time) and the cost is only $5-$10 a month, with much more reliable service than any random $4.99/month webhost. I'm not sure how well it scales up, but bugmenot.com is hosted by them.

Why not ditch the subdomain and just put all your profile stuff on the bare domain?

That's not when the netbook craze started! The craze is a recent event; that product predates it.

Support for color modes other than greyscale and RGB, for one thing.

It's only called "Chromium" because it's an unofficial build; once Google finally releases a GNU/Linux version it is expected that it will also be called Google Chrome. At least that's what the article implies.

iPods. Its not a desktop, sure. But has the average person even heard of a different MP3 player? Even Microsoft failed there.