New True Blood trailer with Bob Dylan music

io9 - Bob Dylan Makes The True Blood Vamps' Clothes Fall Off - True Blood

Firefox Extension Wars

Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle - Ars Technica

The NoScript Firefox extension faced a major backlash last week when users discovered that it was surreptitiously disrupting the operation of AdBlock Plus. The developers behind the two extensions turned the browser into a battleground as their conflict escalated. Mozilla has responded by proposing a new policy that sets boundaries for appropriate extension behavior.  ...

Mission to deal with the continent of plastic garbage in the Pacific

Mission to break up Pacific island of rubbish twice the size of Texas - Times Online

A high-seas mission departs from San Francisco next month to map and explore a sinister and shifting 21st-century continent: one twice the size of Texas and created from six million tonnes of discarded plastic.

Scientists and conservationists on the expedition will begin attempts to retrieve and recycle a monument to throwaway living in the middle of the North Pacific. ...