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February 1, 2006

Most beautiful Firefox extension; SOTU straw men; Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart; reporter fired for MySpace sleaze

The most beautiful Firefox extension ever: Colorful Tabs helps you distinguish among the many tabs you have open. The color goes with the tab's position, though, so if you use Tab Mix Plus, which lets you drag tabs around, you can't arrange them by color.

State of the Union: Tom Shales, the WaPo TV critic, reviews last night's prime-time offering and notes,

"We love our freedom and we will fight to keep it," he said earlier, adding, "We will never surrender to evil," though there don't seem to be any major political figures who are proposing we do that. Bush also kept lashing out against "isolationism," as if any opposition to the war in Iraq represented that philosophy.

Straw men.

Saying no to junk:
The Man Who Said No to Wal-MartEvery year, thousands of executives venture to Bentonville, Arkansas, hoping to get their products onto the shelves of the world's biggest retailer. But Jim Wier wanted Wal-Mart to stop selling his Snapper lawn mowers.

"...he looked into a future of supplying lawn mowers and snow blowers to Wal-Mart and saw a whirlpool of lower prices, collapsing profitability, offshore manufacturing, and the gradual but irresistible corrosion of the very qualities for which Snapper was known. Jim Wier looked into the future and saw a death spiral."

My 20-year-old clothes dryer started making loud noises last week. When I went looking at new ones -- not at Wal-Mart, but this effect ripples -- they're mostly plastic, and wouldn't last 20 years. The dryer is still banging.

Dude, you're busted: Romenesko at Poynter points to a Wilmington (Del.) News Journal story about Matt Donegan, 24, a reporter/copy editor for the weekly Dover Post fired for his blog -- actually a personal MySpace site -- after WGMD talk-radio host Dan Gaffney told Donegan's editor about it.

Neither Romenesko nor the News Journal post a link to the offending site, though. It's here. Some posts seem to have been removed already, but hold your nose anyway.

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