personas 1.0 released

the mozilla labs team released version 1.0 of the personas extension today. personas adds lightweight skinning to firefox, and the labs team has lined up a bunch of people and organizations (including livestrong, pictured here) who have submitted designs. have a look-see, or submit your own.

it’s not a cash grab, it’s an investment

from Bell’s site, for reals. I’m betting someone put it in as a joke, and it stayed in the final copy. in Canada, mobile carriers (and other comm services companies) charge a "system access fee", which is generally $6.95 a month. it’s on top of any plan charges, and is purportedly to improve the network. […]