Valgrind hints for GLib: Finished the patch over the past week and it actually works now. The latest patch also fixes all of Federico's tasks for volunteers. Check it out.

Bugzilla Aliases: One feature of the updated GNOME Bugzilla that I didn't noticed previously is the alias field, where you can assign a name to a bug. The alias can be used when dupping bugs, or by URL surgery with the showbug.cgi.

Improved Font Rendering: As already noted by Edd, David Turner posted an impressive set of patches for cairo and Xft that drastically improve the quality of the subpixel text rendering.. Screenshot here, only makes sense to view using horizontal-RGB lcd display. Didn't test them yet, but looking forward to see them integrated.

Linus on CNN: I've not had read his interviews for a while. I like every word of what he says in this one. Update: And another interview. Pretty sane one again.


Random links and issues from my blogging backlog:

100000th character in ISO-10646 and Unicode: Uma Umamaheswaran writes 0D3D MALAYALAM PRASLESHAM (avagraha) has the unique honour of being the 100000 th character that has been accepted for possible inclusion in 10646 standard by JTC1/SC2.

Tango's Window Experiments: I would love to see windows that look and behave like those mockups.

Worldmapper: This is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest, like population, economy, and a lot of other interesting measures. A pleasure to browse.

Kill Bill's Browser: Funniest "spread Firefox" page I've seen.

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