A couple of Wednesday’s news items tickled my funny bone:

Friendly competition

This one’s kinda cool. Despite the way some folks out there rail against Internet Explorer, the folks who work on that product don’t seem to be holding any grudges against the competition.
The Mozilla corporation released a new version of the Firefox web browser on Tuesday (about a week after Microsoft released a new version of Internet Explorer). To celebrate, the Internet Explorer development team sent the Firefox team a cake!!!

Boxers or Briefs?

All the fire gear I’ve ever run across gets worn over the firefighters regular clothes. I hadn’t been aware of this, but apparently firefighters in some areas strip down to their underwear before putting on their fire gear (I guess this makes sense since not all street clothes will hold up to the temperatures). Well, it seems that in Vancouver, the city has set a rule that all firefighters are to wear boxer shorts. (By way of explanation: the Vancouver fire department is one of a growing number of departments with both men and women.)