Hah! Ha-hah! Take that Microsoft! Opera releases it's "Bork" edition

Looks like Symantec's been a bad boy recently too.

And in other tech news, WIRED has an interview with Marc Andreessen ten years after the launch of Mosaic. Geez, has it really been that long?

Researchers have discovered a common genetic mutation in people who live to be more than 100 years old

Speaking of genetics, it's soon to be 50 years since the discovery of the double Helix. But, as usual, most of the fanfare surrounds Watson and Crick, and not Rosalind Franklin.

And speaking of great women: At least 88 arrested as police break up women's Valentine's Day peace parades in Zimbabwe

And this just floors me: SPCA removes animals from a Houston home that was practicing Santaria. The goat and chickens were to be used in a religious ceremony to help heal a sick family member.

I have so many problems with this. First of all, they violated this family's freedom of religion. (And knowing that in many muslim areas of the world it's common to slaughter a goat for EID - relgious holidays, this incident really bugs me.)

And then, well. This was a goat and a chicken. A GOAT and CHICKEN raised specifically for slaughter. Uh, I ask you, is this uncommon? It makes me wonder if the SPCA is going to start raiding rural homes where they keep gotas and chickens for slaughter. Or 4-H kids homes because they are raising calves and goats and sheep for ritual sale and slaughter. Now, if you're vegetarian, vegan or a strong supporter of PETA, then you're probably against the slaughter of any animal for any reason, and that I can understand. But those ideologies aren't what this raid was based on. I think it was more of a "They're-non-Christian-and-killing-something-for a-healing-ceremony.-They-must-be-devil-worshippers!" kind of thing.

Speaking of bizarre behavior, you just can't make stuff up like this and have people believe it.

Oh, and this encounter with a toy blimp is the funniest thing I've read in a long while.

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