links for 2008-01-11

• Natural Born Pundits: The rise and fall of the OLPC
  One Laptop Per Child is the great vision, that a small piece of equipment distributed to the children all over the world can change the future for the benefit of all. But the vision has a great flaw: It was conceived in the white halls of wisdom of the we
  (tags: commentary olpc)
• Comprehensive Guide on How to reduce the memory usage in Firefox? – Thinktechno.com
  Firefox 2.0 since its release had the niggling memory leak and no matter how many updates have been out to address this issue it still has that retard issue. A standard Firefox install without any extensions consumes around 80MB but soon after you add a f
  (tags: firefox howto guide optimization tips memory performance)
• Problematic extensions – MozillaZine Knowledge Base
  This article lists some of the extensions that are known to cause unwanted side effects in Firefox or in other extensions and plugins, along with recommended workarounds. There are hundreds of extensions, and not all problems are listed here. In addition,
  (tags: firefox optimization reference memory)
• When Insults Had Class
  (tags: humor)