If you've got a full meal ahead of you, have a read of The Mind of God by Paul Davies or Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship by John Polkinghorne (Physics).

With a bit less time, for a snack, nibble on the short article Creation and Evolution not Creation or Evolution by R J Berry (Geneticist) and you should start to have a few ideas for conversation with biscuits.

That's fine - you're a geek. However, for my parents, I'm recommending they go for Chrome simply because of the update feature. Any kind of manual intervention in updating is going to throw them, but with Chrome, they're going to be up to date and relatively secure. Chrome's got it right for the vast majority of users and Mozilla would do well to go in the same direction.

The big question I can see though is: where does this leave Microsoft? Suddenly, the general feeling seems to be that Windows 7 isn't up to the tablet task. Which leaves Microsoft with nothing on the market. OK, you've got Bill Gates making some vague declarations of "doing something with a stylus", but there's nothing concrete. Win 7 doesn't cut it, Windows Phone 7 isn't out yet and probably isn't adapted to tablets. The world's premier OS manufacturer appears to have nothing to offer a whole new segment of personal computing. Apple, Google, HP... lone warriors fighting it out on planet tablet. The usual suspect nowhere to be seen.

Then they came for Windows ME...

Kind of depends. If it's for a cleaner or a mechanic, then discrimination on sexual orientation is clearly an issue. However, if churches were unable to refuse employment for someone in, say, pastoral care, with a lifestyle or beliefs contrary to that church's teaching, then such a law would go beyond anti-discrimination and become intolerant dictature.

If you believe it enough, I'm sure it'll happen.

Who needs real data? Just remind me what viewpoint allows me to drive my over-sized penis-extension SUV without feeling guilty.

...said Yahoo to Google...

Did you consider that maybe his dog did one or two of them?

Corrected!

The US could even outsource it to the Chinese...

Cancel caps lock with shift. The option disappeared a couple of years ago. Even Windows allows you to do that.

Interesting - thanks for that Dan.

For another take on the whole question, there's CS Lewis' trilogy, where he starts from the premise that Earth is the only fallen planet, and the only one needing redemption.

Nothing new about theology wondering about extraterrestrial life, but it's good to see the Vatican finally getting round to it.

The summary is totally false, and badly misrepresents what the full article actually says.

Once the bleeding dismembered quote is replaced in its context, it simply notes that Vista/Win7 don't use menu bars, and these are generally replaced by ribbons. Firefox needs to do something to replace these missing menus, that's all.

So let's all stop panicking. Current plans are apparently to make it look like Chrome, not Word.

And that's pretty much why OO.o needs to implement it. Like it or not, more and more people will become used to using the ribbon over the next years. Good or bad, it will become the standard. Let MS do the initial development, force business to retrain, whatever, but once there's a good proportion of people using the ribbon, OO.o's got to follow suit.