Exactly, it's estimated that there are up to a billion asteroids in our solar system, of which an estimated 100 million are larger than 10 metres across and likely to cross Earth's orbit at some point.

It's also worthy to note that even a small asteroid (i.e. about the size of a house) is enough to destroy a city, and a larger one could wreak havoc globally, regardless of where it lands.

Also, to quote Bill Bryson, "the number of people who in the world who are actively searching for asteroids is fewer than the staff of a typical McDonalds. (It is somewhat higher now. But not much)."

And we couldn't do anything about it even if we detected an asteroid that was going to hit earth, as we don't have any rockets that could reach it in time. The Saturn V rockets were retired in the early '70s, we (as a species) now have no replacement that could even reach the moon.

You might want to have a look at Retrospectiva. It has ticketing, milestones/goals, code reviews, a wiki add-on, a blog add-on, and an Agile project management add-on. Plus you're free to develop your own add-ons. It's fully open source too...

And here's a link to an English language article from the Finnish Broadcasting Company (the Finnish equivalent of the BBC): 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right

To be frank I was horrified when I read the title, but when you look at the mockups, it's doesn't seem to be as bad as the Office 2007 Ribbon.

For one thing it doesn't try to be "context aware" and it doesn't move everything into (partly) illogical categories/tabs. It also retains much of the menus, but moves them to a couple of buttons at the end of the address bar.

To quote from the MozillaWiki article (emphasis mine):

Firefox isn't the type of application that necessarily has contextual actions in the same way Windows Explorer does. So how to handle the functionality of the menubar if it is hidden? Chrome and Safari (and to a lesser extent IE7 & 8) have solved this by sorting, trimming and collecting the menubar functionality into two separate buttons. One of these buttons has items that apply to the webpage and another to the application itself. Now they don't always agree on which item should go in which menu, but the general principal is sound. This is a good solution.

So it would seem that Firefox is moving more toward Chrome or Safari than towards MS Office. This is a good thing, I for one think that the Chrome UI is pretty slick, despite the fact that I'm a Firefox user.

Perhaps this is a good point in time to switch to Pidgin (multi-platform and my personal choice), Adium (Mac OS X), Empathy (Gnome), Kopete (KDE), or some other, more trustworthy client?

Looking at the Skype founders' company website, they license three different products/technologies: PeerEnabler, PeerCache, and Global Index.

In their words:

• PeerEnabler is "a virtual Content Distribution Network"
• PeerCache is "a cache product that enabled network operators to optimize peer-to-peer traffic"
• Global Index is their flagship product and "is the world's most technologically advanced, scalable and field-tested peer-to-peer technology. Global Index creates a self-organizing and self-healing distributed storage, transport and data object management system that does away with the costs of traditional datacenter solutions and enables a range of applications from communications to broadcasting and beyond."

They also explicitly state that Global Index is used in Skype.

Maybe they'll spend the $18 million on fixing Drupal?