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Opera has just announced through its desktop team the releasing of a new developing version for betatesting that includes a tool that makes reports about browser usage and configuration and without private information to send it anonymously to the company to improve the browser. Someone named this Opera 'Spyware', though it's a feature not present in official releases, which can be deactivated, you can read reports before sending it and the browser warns you about this the first time it's run.

Tron (1981) (is from where I took the phrase for the title) was one of the first movies to use scenes generated by computer. This movie talks about "life" inside computers. Characters live games as if they were real and the game seen in the video has been developed for PC becoming very popular and one of my favorites for Linux. Yes, there are games for Linux although many people says that you can't play in Linux. In fact, I have made a list of Linux games which I was going to post here, but since it became very large, I published it in documents section.

Those are the results of running the Acid2 test against the most popular browsers.

The results are eloquent, but just in case, I'm going to clarify it: it should be a yellow smiley face over a white background that when you pass the mouse over or near the nose, it becomes blue.

You probably have heard some popular belief with a supposed scientific base of the type of humans use only 10% of their brains, you can kill somebody dropping a coin from a tall building, hair and nails continue growing after death or water drains backwards in the other hemisphere.

Surely that you have heard more than twenty, but twenty are solely those that a recently published document (a little lacking in references) tries to solve.

May this be the reason?

It's the current fashion: forges. There are so many that you don't know which to choose.

The forges are websites hosting software projects that, in addition to hosting your code, offer the services the developers need for their project, like mail lists, bug tracking, revision control for team developing (CVS and/or SVN), forums, web hosting, ...

The most known and used is SourceForge, but more began to appear and now even Microsoft has its own open-source repository. But it's not the only one, we also have Sun, Google (with SoC, a very interesting project for free software community), FSF, Novell or RedIRIS (Spanish public organization), Mancomún (related to CESGA) and BerliOS (from the German Government and that now, like other times, is down).

After being arrested for presumably murdering his wife, Hans Reiser, the creator of ReiserFS (IMHO the best filesystem I tried), wants to sell his company Namesys —which gives support for the filesystem— to be able to pay his defense.

The Simpsons - 6x09 - Homer Badman

Finally, it wasn't Pop Rox what makes Coke explode as the urban legend says. It's Mentos, as probed in one of the most seen videos. Cause the year is ending, so, as expected, we are getting those "the most..." lists. And then we have the most popular videos, the most important scientific discoveries, the funniest viruses, the most relevant undisclosed news or top searches in Google, Yahoo and AOL.