In Europe the media is constantly taking about how visitors and press get censored when trying to talk about Chinese politics, laws and human rights violations. China has set up numerous “blocks” in order to keep information out and also monitor what’s going through.

Now with the Olympics just a few days ahead the “block” seams to be even tighter to avoid bad publicity. But thanks to GIFC (Global Internet Freedom Consortium) there seems to be a way through the Internet block at least.

You can obtain the GIFC Anti-Censorship Tools Bundle from their products and services page and start leaking news (if you wish). Regardless, I wouldn’t feel comfortable knowing that someone (or something) was reading all my emails and tracking my way around the Internet.

Finally, I find it odd that a country with close to a fifth of the world’s population appears to live under a dictatorship and furthermore not demanding a change! What’s your take on this?

The Norwegian artist Frode Sandven, now currently living in Australia is the son of a magician and is probably better known as the Incredible Rubberman and/or Captain Frodo.

A few years ago he starred in the British TV-show “When will I be famous”;

He’s now currently working at “La Clique”, a modern circus/cabaret theatre in Melbourne, performing an impressive 9 times a week. Besides being incredibly flexible (obviously) he also has a few other tricks he enjoys pulling off like swallowing swords and putting other objects in places that most people find insane.

The ongoing success is, according to himself, a result of combining humour with artistry. I agree

Firefox 3 will be available shortly, you can follow the progress at wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.0. As you can see most of the work is done, and we should all be able to grab the latest release in just a short while – 1 hour to be exact.

Make sure you download version 3 through the official channels in order to participate in their World record attempt!

Please let me know what you think after you’ve installed and tried it. With all the hype upfront I’m sure we’re going to get mixed reactions.

Could be useful to know what add-ons who work and who don’t as well…

DExposE2 is a task switching application similar to the one found on Mac’s OS X. Setup is straight forward, and after tweaking the settings just a little bit (to your likings) it’s ready to go. By default you’ll get all your open applications side by side on the desktop (press F9, F10 or F11) and to select simply click on whatever you wish to work on/with.

Nice fading transitions and help titles when hovering makes this a killer add-on for XP or Vista (Mac user’s obviously doesn’t need this one…).

Here’s how it looks on my Win XP SP2 office PC:

Grab the code from Lora Devrexter’s homepage and try it for yourself. Download link on the right-side menu, or download it here.

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