Firefox, the increasingly popular open source, cross platform, web browser we all know and love has steadily gaining traction. I was shocked today when I checked the site traffic for theartlab.net, a website I maintain. It is now 74.5% Firefox users and a pretty even split at around 8% for Safari and IE users, and the rest were a hodgepodge of mobile browsers and flavors of Opera.

Warning! Extreme geekery up ahead!
In a recent conversation I had with a friend, the subject came up about how a computer knows how to display certain colors for certain pixels. I've dappered around with Max/MSP, and in doing so understand at least the basics of how this works. It's like this: