Be the signal

“An adult Australian, selected at random, is now statistically more likely to be an asthma sufferer than a Brendan Nelson supporter.” — Annabel Crabb is back! Yay!

“Now this is cool. Select the autocomplete entry with the up/down arrows on your keyboard. Press the ‘Delete’ key. The erroneous autocomplete entry is gone forever.” — Best Firefox tip EVER.

“The need for a CEO and improved efficiency stem from OLPC operating ‘almost like a terrorist group, doing almost impossible things,’ and the need to be managed ‘more like Microsoft,’ Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said.” — Serious PR malfunction.

“Every element is impregnated with these aspirations of sociality, play, creation, freedom. As a project and as a device, it’s beautiful and revolutionary.” — Great article from Tom Coates about OLPC.

“Here I am now, working for Google! [...] I have chosen to work on GNOME as my ‘20%’ project.” — Manu Cornet, now at Google, recalls his adventures in GNOME during GSoC and GUADEC.

“Australian SMEs aren’t paying nearly enough attention to Linux [...] but despite the prevailing attitude, it won’t take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future.” — Local research from IDC.