In their continuing quest for ultimate email domination, web email provider Gmail has today added the ability to choose from a wide variety of themes developed both by the Gmail Team and by independent artists. The themes are similar to those provided in Google's Homepage provider, iGoogle, in several ways."In ...

They have obscure inside jokes, such as "i liek mudkips" and "pool's closed". They come together in large group events like ROFLcon as well as virtually on sites like 4Chan. They often make the claim that females do not exist within their ranks, though evidence suggests otherwise. They worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Google, and Longcat. They - we - are not a cult, we're the internet… or are we? Wikipedia (say what you will about it, I like it) defines a cult as "a cohesive social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding population considers to be outside the mainstream." So, do you feel that the internetters fall into that description?

Severe security flaws were found in the kernel for most Ubuntu installs. If you're one of the open-source supporters using Ubuntu versions 6.06 LTS, 7.04, 7.10, or 8.04 LTS it's best to patch. The actual problems are interesting. The flaw opens up the user to a multitude of attacks all of which are listed after the jump.

Big websites have had microformats, which are machine-readable ways of storing data in HTML, for a long time. So far, the only thing I've really seen come of this is a few choice addons which could, for example, add a Facebook user to your Outlook contacts. However, Mozilla has just released some details on a project it calls Ubiquity which blows away all the existing uses.

I was lucky (or perhaps unlucky) enough to be part of the testing phase for a personal in-flight entertainment system while traveling. The results – less than satisfying. Unresponsive controls and multiple system failures combined with high latency to create a terrible overall system. And yes – Air Canada, ...

You may not have heard of it, but there's a type of badware called DRM and if you've ever downloaded music it's probably already on your computer. No, it's not a virus you got from downloading songs from Limewire - it's a set of restrictions placed on music, videos, and games that you've paid for! Worse still: every time you buy a .99 cent song from iTunes you're also paying to have your right to backup, transfer, and do what you want with your content nullified.