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Nowadays we get bombarded with recycling suggestions.
Quite a few months ago I was very surprised to find a recycling example very “Web 2.0″: Product logo recycling.
Compare the photo from a promo flashlight from the System Management ARTS (SMARTS) company and Adobe AIR.
Most likely the SMARTS logo trademark has expired since EMC has acquired the company, so Adobe can use it. Interesting nonetheless.

Adobe AIR	SMARTS

Adobe AIR is a trademark  of Adobe Systems Incorporated

If you were looking for the universal recycling logo you might want to look here

Another useful public service, this time from xkcd.com: Guide to Flowcharts

I reinstalled Windows XP “quick&dirty” in a partition to do some testing, and, because it was included in the Google Desktop, I ended up trying Norton Security Scan as my anti-virus/security suite. Now I have a question for Google and Norton: Dudes, even for free, how can you call this a security suite if I need to upgrade just to remove cookies? I’d call this Norton Security Scam. I am so glad I know how to remove my cookies selectively.

Still, these two companies should be ashamed for doing this kind of bait-and-switch to get money from less knowledgeable users.

I’m one of the members of the SXEmacs project, an amicable “fork” of XEmacs (a not so friendly fork of GNU Emacs).

SXEmacs has a small team, but one with an excelent team spirit and will to innovate. That makes work on this project a lot of fun.

SXEmacs has some innovative features, like the transparent support for multiple precision arithmetic, foreign functions interface support (FFI), regular expression compilation caching (very useful for Gnus users), multimedia file support (seveal engines like ffmpeg), Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collection.This is only a small sample.

As for compatibility, SXEmacs is most compatible with XEmacs 21.4. Some of the latest features of development versions of GNU Emacs and XEmacs are not in SXEmacs, but mostly vice-versa

One of the web comics I subscribe to is xkcd, one of the “geekiest”.
This time, on Faust 2.0 the issue of the evil of EULA takes on a new spin:

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