That's ridiculous. I even remove posts from my own newsfeed from apps that I want to keep using. (Mainly: Networked Blogs is set up to auto-publish stuff from my stand-alone site, but sometimes I've already posted the same thing directly to Facebook, so I'll remove the extra copy.) So that counts as a vote against an app that I like use actively?

This is right up there with assuming that a moving cell phone with an active call is someone talking while driving, not a passenger, and auto-mailing them a ticket. Which I've heard suggested.

I can see blocking new uploads if, for instance, an unfamiliar app has been picked up by spammers who are using it to flood the service with bimbots or whatever.

But the next step shouldn't be to just delete everything ever uploaded by that app. The next step is to take a look at the uploaded data, say, "Oh, hey, there's a whole bunch of older uploads that look legitimate," and then take steps to block the spammers rather than the tool.

What next, deleting all accounts created by users running Chromium?

Ugh. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

My condolences.

Most browsers out there have pretty good update rates, driven by automatic updaters or a userbase made up of people who want the latest and greatest.

Firefox 3.5? 3.6 has been out for what, a year? 4.0 for several months. By the time this policy goes into effect, Firefox 5 will be out. And while Firefox users are slow to update compared to Chrome, Opera, etc. users, they're still a lot faster than IE users.

There's nothing (other than policy or preference) preventing anyone running IE7 from upgrading to IE8 at least. The minimum OS for IE7 was Windows XP, which can run IE8, and AFAIK there isn't a huge install base of IE7-specific web apps out there like there was with IE6 and ActiveX. And unlike the jump from IE6 to IE7, there isn't a huge change in user interface, so it should be a comfortable jump. People just need some encouragement to do it.

Even Superman's costume hasn't been static for the last 70 years. The overall look has been the same, but how the cape attaches, the design of the S-shield, and yes, even those red shorts, have changed a lot over time.

Check out some early Action Comics covers for comparison. http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/action-comics

At the risk of repeating myself: Xmarks. It'll sync Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE.

Chrome has its own bookmark sync now (separate from Google Bookmarks, IIRC) that does what you want. Open up Options, then go to the Personal Stuff tab.

If you need to sync across multiple browsers, Xmarks will sync Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari.

They're not quite the same, though. Delicious has always been at least in part about personal use: Sure, it would be cool if someone else saw this neat site I bookmarked and also liked it, but really I'm posting it so that I can find it myself later, since I might not be on the same computer.

Reddit, Digg, and StumbleUpon, however, are very much about promotion^H^H^H^H^Hsharing, and if you post things just for your own use, they'll get treated as junk or spam.

I use XMarks to synchronize across different computers and browsers. They were actually going to shut down next month, but an outpouring of support from users convinced LastPass it would be worth buying the company and setting up a freemium model (basic service is free, you can pay for extras). Free accounts get automatic bookmark sync and online access to the bookmarks from other browsers. Premium accounts add Android & iPhone apps, tab sync, and a couple of other things.

Most web browsers have some sort of biult-in sync service these days, though of course it only works if you use the same browser on every computer.

Firefox 4 adds a built-in sync service.
Chrome and Opera both have built-in sync services.
Safari has some sort of sync service, but I think it might be part of mobile.me or whatever Apple is calling their online offering these days.
Not sure about IE, but I'd bet there's a Windows Live bookmarking service by now.

Another good one is Greg Keyes' Age of Unreason series (written as J. Gregory Keyes, but newer editions use the shorter version of his name). It starts out with Newton succeeding in making alchemy work, which leads to a very different kind of industrial revolution in the late 17th/early 18th century. A young Benjamin Franklin is one of the main characters in the four-book series.

Or they went with "libre" because it's unambiguously free-as-in-speech, and not commonly confused with free-as-in-beer.

I found a scan of the comic strip on my computer. It was Bent Offerings, by Don Addis.

It's certainly the right kind of humor, but I think it was something else. Maybe "Close to Home?"

Try clearing your cookies in between (or just use a different browser), or test it with someone else's email address. It only shows your name and photo if you were previously logged on with the same account.

I'm not sure how wise that is, but it's certainly an improvement over any random person being able to extract the information (assuming, of course, that your name and photo aren't already publicly associated with that email address via other channels).