This Week in Tech 148

Whither Yang and Yahoo, little Billy Gates, XP/Vista, tweeting ice on Mars, Firefox 3, and more.

• Last year, Harry McCracken quit, then returned, to PC World, protesting the killing of the "Ten Things We Hate About Apple" article.
• Yahoo Exec Tracker - 114 execs have left since Jan. 2007
• How to resign from Yahoo.
• Dvorak: Leave Jerry alone and let him manage Yahoo.
• Where's Jerry?
• Rare Bill Gates photos.
• Microsoft without Gates.
• Gates without Microsoft.
• Microsoft to spend $200 million more on Windows advertising.
• Ice discovered on Mars, heard first on Twitter (@MarsPhoenix).
• Teens prefer Web, TV over reading.
• A Beginner's Guide to Sporn (NSFW - not safe for work).
• Man selling his life on eBay.
• FCC sides with cable companies.
• Congress gives telecoms immunity.
• NVIDIA releases GeForce GTX 280.
• Firefox 3 sets new record, topping 8 million downloads in a day.
• Watch TWiT Live for live tech content.

Software picks

• Flock - social Web browser
• WebKit - open source Web browser engine
• Foxmarks - bookmarking add-on
• PicLens - view sites in full-screen 3D
• Handbrake - open source DVD-to-MPEG-4 converter

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Show notes by David Di Franco.