This is just gross beyond words.

(By the way, I wonder if Sears really intended for their “Christmas Lane” to look like South Park.)

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
—Mary Shelley

Lots of chatter in the news recently, such as this article and this article from Reuters about cyberwar, with North Korea possibly at the front lines. Speaking of which, Frontline has a lot of information if you want to dig in. And here’s a report on cyberwarfare from the Rand think tank.

The cold war may be over. The cyberwar is just beginning.

I don’t know how I missed this Internet meme, but it’s all over YouTube: Take about three minutes of a scene from Der Untergang (The Downfall), add your own subtitles and hilarity ensues.

Hitler’s first Springsteen show is pitch-perfect to any fan of The Boss, but there are tons of these videos out there, many of them Web-related: Hitler gets banned from Wikipedia, No Twitter for Hitler, Hitler Gets Scammed on eBay and, of course, Hitler Finds Out He’s A Joke on YouTube.

As you might imagine, though, these videos cover all sorts of subjects: Hitler gets betrayed in a game of Risk, finds out there’s no Santa, doesn’t like the new Star Trek movie … there’s no end to the fun you can have with Hitler’s anger!

Want current events? Here’s one in which Hilter learns that Sarah Palin has resigned.

And if you’re looking for one Downfall video to sum them all up, it’s probably this one.

If you’re a Firefox user, you may have been one of the five million people who upgraded to version 3.5 in the first 24 hours of its release last week, according to The Register, which also reports that version 3.5.1 is on its way to deal with some bugs.

While you wait for the upgrade to the upgrade, you might want to check out Lunascape, which is like having Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Safari all in one browser. This PC Mag article provides a great overview.

As AppScout reports, Lunascape is in public alpha (UPDATE: Please note the comment from Yuki Sekiguchi of Lunascape) , so expect some bugginess. Still, it’s packed with interesting features and maximum tweakability so you can adjust it to your personal preferences. Plus it’s fast: I’m running Lunascape 5.1.1 and found pages that were taking forever to load in Firefox 3.5 popping up in just a second or two.