Stalking Venus

Despite all of the download day problems and poor organisation, it just goes to show what a huge following the Fox has… In 24 hours, over 8 million downloads. Guinness has yet to confirm the results, but it looks like the Mozilla uber-app is going to set and totally exceed the record.

Stalking Venus has joined the world’s first Internet balloon race! See the balloon raccoon bobbing about at the bottom right-hand side of the screen? Well, he’s going to be the Stalking Venus balloon racing champion.
All you have to do is wait until the balloon race starts in a few days time (see our sidebar on [...]

Associated Press reports yet another nail in the coffin for South African commerce. The leading online retailer, Amazon.com has halted all standard shipping to South Africa because of the enormous volume of items being stolen at S.A. post offices countrywide.
South African customers who still wish to purchase goods via Amazon can do so, but only [...]

Okay, so for those of you who are absolutely desperate to get their hands on the official FireFox 3 release, you can go and download it via FTP here.
It’s weird that I should have to report it as if it’s a bleeding-edge alpha that you’re going to be downloading. Especially considering that they are trying [...]

Don’t forget to pop over to the Firefox Guinness Record site and download the latest and greatest version of the world’s favourite web browser tomorrow, Tuesday 17 June, 2008.
Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right?
All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set [...]

Now here’s a bunch of people with a great idea: A website that allows employees to post anonymous reviews of the company they work for, including the salary that they are being paid.

The website then compiles these reviews and cross references them with reviews from other companies. In this way, a visitor to the site can quickly see who’s earning what and where, as well as how happy the person is there.

One of Stalking Venus’ advertisement-serving sponsor sites has decided that our content is of an adult nature. This is probably due to yesterdays post that had some boobage and penii, but also could be because I don’t shy away from using adult language. I write the site the same way that I speak to my [...]

If you’ve ever hacked-and-slashed your way through the mind-numbing tedium of an online roleplaying game, even one as good as World of Warcraft, you’ll like this. Greg Costikyan, has designed and developed a parody of WoW that fondly takes the piss out of the entire genre.
He’s created a flash-based side-scrolling game with his tongue placed [...]

Mozilla is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in a 24 hour period by heavily promoting their Download Day. They haven’t actually set a date yet, but they will. Can you feel the excitement? Can you feel the sarcasm?
No, seriously - I’ve been using a beta of Firefox 3 [...]