Firefox logo spotted in space!

Actually, it’s just the variable star V838 Monocerotis. And the colours are wrong. But even so, the shape is…well, see for yourself.

Rising gas prices take their toll.

Fuel retailers are seeing higher numbers of “gas-related thievery” (that is: drive-offs). Fuel tanks and mobile refilling platforms used by contractors are also being targeted, and bulk thefts are becoming increasingly common.

Even Wal*Mart is feeling the squeeze, both in their own costs (food prices have been subject to increase recently due to transport costs) and at the checkout counter.

Major GPS company hands over customer GPS data to police…what could go wrong?

Well, it turns out that when TomTom supplied “anonymous” user GPS data it had collected to the Dutch authorities, police in the Netherlands used that information — which included historical data about driving speed — to set speed traps in areas where speed limit violations were, according to the data, common.

Apparently, TomTom “never foresaw this kind of use” when it handed over the data.

Video: the Aflac duck quacks again!

After the previous voice actor got fired, Aflac commercials went the silent film route for a couple of months (and were pretty funny, actually). But now a new VA has been hired, and the duck can quack once more.

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