A quick note on the Turdhead forums: Until today, we've required registration for anyone submitting comments on most of the topics.

As of this weekend, however, free speech rules: No

registration required! (Of course, if you want a cool avatar, message tracking, etc., membership DOES have its privileges.)

Stop in and talk. Everybody's welcome… except maybe that Giblet guy.

Related link: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Remember the browser wars of the mid-1990s? When people rabidly stood behind their browser of choice and debated the relative merits of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator? Or dared to be different and ran with splinter groups such as Opera, Chimera or OmniWeb?

As the log files of this Web site will attest, those days are over. Like it or not, Microsoft was the clear winner of that one, and most Web visitors eventually just settled in with the "default" browser that came with their machine: Microsoft Internet

Explorer. The only exceptions were the Linux/Unix crowd (who had no native IE, and probably would have rather died than use it anyway), a few techno-hippies who revolted against the power of The Man and the Mac users who eventually found salvation in Safari, a native OS X browser they could call their own.

The result: A largely homogenous, bloated pool of browsers ripe for exploitation and viral infection: The number of IE-targeted virii has escalated exponentially in the past few months, and users are once again beginning to search for alternatives.
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Not sure exactly why, but apparently, the Belgians have discovered Li'l Johnny, and they're determined to get the little turd out

of the pool. In the past two days, our logs have shown an influx of Belgian visitors to the aquarium.

Welcome, Belgians! Enjoy your stay.

– The management