"The blogosphere is becoming more and more wild as the months and years progress. People are guilty-first, and everyone loves to pile-on...."

But as with much of the Web, there's a definite first-mover advantage. If you post an early comment, you're more likely to be part of the discourse and influence how it proceeds. Not to mention traffic, Google-juice, and all the other good stuff.

If it's wrong at all, it's a tragedy of the commons - the conflict between the common good of waiting for the dust to settle, and the individual interests that want to be heard and shape the discussion.

3-D movies make a lot of sense. They're a movie-going experience that viewers can't easily duplicate in their own home theatres.

Consider the different possibilities for 3-D viewing:

1. Anaglyph (red-green glasses) - this is the most crude type of 3-D, but works with any format of home theatre. Unfortunately, because of the process, colors are often flattened out, and there is a lot of ghosting (when you can see doubled images). Works best on an LCD monitor/TV.

2. Polarized passive glasses (the cardboard glasses with grey filters) - do not work with CRTs, LCDs, or plasma TVs. You need a special dual-projector setup. Even then, the picture is usually dimmer than a normal movie.

3. Polarized active glasses (aka 'flicker/shutter glasses', connected to the home theatre via wire or wireless) - most do not work with LCDs, CRT-only as far as I know. Heavy and clunky, and the image flickers.

As for 3-D movies being crappy in content, that's a problem for the producers. James Cameron has done some amazing work. It's a matter of using 3-D to enhance the movie, not an excuse for throwing objects at the screen. Think of what Hitchcock did with color in films like Marnie.

The key feature of MLM is that the actual product is secondary to the tiered marketing/referral structure.

For example, with Amway/Quixtar, they're typically selling products people are unfamiliar with and would be unlikely to pay the extra premium to purchase. In reality, Amway/Quixtar reps and their friends and family end up buying the bulk of these products.

Squidoo, as far as I can tell, wasn't set up primarily to funnel cash upstream like MLMs -- its purpose is to provide human aggregation of content. Given that, I'd say Squidoo is not an MLM. You're free to dislike its marketing approach, of course.

I have an Archos AV500, and I'm considering getting the wired camera attachment, which looks similar to this. Does anyone have any experience with it?

I liked the concept of NetJaxer, but in practice it's got a major flaw: no cookie support in spawned popups.

That means that if you open a popup from a NetJaxer window (for example, to enter account information), it opens in your default browser, and doesn't seem to have access to the cookie that NetJaxer did. There's a site I rely on that relies on this popup method for several things, so I was unable to use it.

It's also unclear as to whether minimized NetJaxer windows update automatically when they are in the System Tray. For example, if you're using Meebo, the hover text for the minimized Meebo won't show you new messages in the Title text.

My suggestion is PowerMenu, which is freeware. Right-click on a window and you can change its priority, minimize it to the tray, and more. It doesn't fix the hover text issue, and you have to launch the browser window manually and minimize it (NetJaxer can save shortcuts to your desktop or elsewhere), but it's more powerful.