June 17 is Firefox Download Day 2008

Posted June 12, 2008, 10:38 a.m.

I mentioned a couple weeks ago about Mozilla’s intent to set a world record for the most software downloads in a day with the upcoming launch of the Firefox 3 web browser. Well, the date has finally been set. Firefox Download Day 2008 (and the associated final release of Firefox 3) will be on June 17—next Tuesday.

Mark your calendars. This will be a great, free way for you to support an excellent open source software project and, while you’re at it, download a great web browser. I’ve been using the betas and release candidates of Firefox 3 for months now; this thing is rock solid.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

Harry S. Truman

Civilization is the result of a long social process which takes place in the same spot, and is handed down from one generation to another, each one profiting by the experience of the last.

Alexis de Tocqueville

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Anonymous

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. . . .

Winston Churchill

I told the doctor I was overtired . . . constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I’m normal.

Jules Feiffer

Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.

P.J. O’Rourke

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

He was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

Superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

Sydney J. Harris

Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over everything that stands in their way.

Robert Yates

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate.

William O. Douglas

[The First Amendment] requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary.

Hugo Black

But once you find the truth, you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

Maya Angelou

I’ve destroyed my passions, rather like a violent man who, finding he can’t control his horse, kills it.

Nicolas Chamfort

It is very easy to change a free government into an arbitrary one, but that it is very difficult to convert tyranny into freedom.

Anonymous

Belief in immortality dies easily in those who live in such a way that they cannot face the prospect of a judgment.

Fulton Sheen

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep—not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Jack Handey

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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