Well, it finally happened. Microsoft and Yahoo have signed a deal for collaboration on search, with Microsoft’s Bing powering the search engine and Yahoo selling the ads. No reason not to like this deal that I can think of.
Stories with details:
PC World
ZDNet

Good old AT&T got a lot right with this ad campaign way back in 1993. Check it out.

From Wired Magazine “Wired Science” - this is pretty neat:

And more from Wired Science, eclipse photos posted on Flickr, with some really great shots.

This was the longest elclipse this century; another one close to this would be here in 2132, ot thereabouts…

wechoosethemoon.org is a new site that will re-create the entire 1969 NASA space mission that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.
This all coincides with the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing of July 20, 1969.
This is quite a site and well worth a look - they will follow the mission in [...]

Ever wonder how the USA is spending your tax dollars on IT? All in all, it totals some $74 billion.
They have a new “dashboard” here, which is pretty useful, if you’re interested in that sort of thing.

The new Firefox, version 3.5, was released last week, and I think it is a real winner.
PC World agrees :
Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5, which you can download from Mozilla’s Web site. Firefox 3.5 boasts a number of significant changes–ranging from new ways to work with the browser features to under-the-hood improvements that Mozilla developers [...]

Robin Harris of ZD-Net has an interesting proposition…
After the Vista fiasco, Microsoft owes its long-suffering customers more than a “screaming deal. They’re owed an apology from Steve Ballmer - and a free copy of Vista SP3 Windows 7.
His basic position:
Vista was flawed from the beginning.
An interesting premise, though not likely to fly; but I [...]