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Internet porn is now available in China. The Chinese government no longer censors internet porn. The lifting of the internet porn blockade was done without comment. http://www.3news.co.nz/defaultStrip.aspx?tabid=213&articleID=167070

ToneCheck identifies and flags emotionally charged sentences within your email message. It also features editing capabilities to modify the "tone" of your email message. (beta) http://tonecheck.com/beta Demo: http://tonecheck.com/demo

What's in the box? http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/

Instructions for removing the Search Helper Extension and Bing Bar from Firefox. Microsoft Windows Update (KB982217) silently installed the Firefox Search Helper Extension and the Bing search bar for select users, and removed the ability to uninstall them. The KB982217 Windows Update has been updated, to remove this bug. https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Removing+the+Search+Helper+Extension+and+Bing+Bar

A month of Diaspora in action. First screenshots and video! http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/07/01/one-month-in.html

South Korea eased a regulation forcing the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer for online banking and shopping. They would allow the use of either the 1996 Active X security framework or equivalents that are as good or better. http://www.electronista.com/print/76908

Install Firefox Personas to support your team and compete for the Firefox Cup. The team with the most fans using Personas wins the Firefox Cup! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxcup/

Know Your Meme: Troll Bait - A new species of Troll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pESOSI2hTA

Free Work For Sale http://johnnance01.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/free-work-for-sale/

What's new in PostgreSQL 9.0 - Hot Standby and Streaming Replication are two new features you can't ignore. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Illustrated_9_0

Google on Flash vs. HTML5 video tag. Today, Adobe Flash provides the best platform for YouTube's video distribution requirements. HTML5 video tag and WebM are big steps for open standards. http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html

Firefox 3.6.6 (Farmville) released. The "hung plugin" timeout was changed from 10s to 45s because some users couldn't play Farmville. That's all. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574905

Why Tabs are on Top in Firefox 4 [Video] http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2010/06/24/why-tabs-are-on-top-in-firefox-4/

.xxx domains approved by ICANN. The controversial .xxx sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) was finally approved by ICANN. .xxx is sponsored by ICM Registry, Inc. and it will cost $60/year. .xxx is reported to go on sale early next year. Supposedly, there are over 110,000 pre-reservations for .xxx domains. http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/25/xxx-the-internets-pornography-domain/

Rob Pike on how and why Google's new Go language was developed. http://radar.oreilly.com/print/40119.html