Links for 6 November 2007

Digg, you used to be cool: “Digg used to be a site for, well let’s say it, nerds. It was full of the weird and wonderful, interesting and unique, but now it seems to be a place for shameless promotion, special interests and bitching.” This may strike a chord with some…
Ancient sea mud records supernova blast: from New Scientist. Seems an exploding supernova in our galactic neighbourhood (a radius spanning a mere 60 to 300 light years) caused a round of extinctions on Earth some three or so million years ago. There’s another supernova waiting to happen not too far from us at the moment…
CABLOG: the blog of Sydney taxi driver Adrian Neylan. “Where once I was a draftsman, survey technician, landscaper and groundsman, these days a dodgy back has me driving taxis by night, blogging till dawn and sleeping by day. Welcome to the world of a night cabbie.”
Friendly URLs: as in search engine friendly URLs. So do I have your attention now? This post at the SitePoint blog has a number of cross development platform options for creating archive URLs that are a little more visible to the likes of Google.
Extend Firefox 2: a contest for developers! “Will you be the brain behind the next great Web innovation? Do you have the drive to take your Firefox Add-on idea to the masses? Are you ready to affect everyday life for millions of people around the world?”