{"id":172,"date":"2004-02-09T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/02\/09\/firefox\/"},"modified":"2004-02-09T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T20:13:39","slug":"firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/02\/09\/firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a310'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mozilla Project has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/firefox\/firefox-name-faq.html\">changed<\/a> the name of their stand-alone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">browser<\/a> yet again.  Formerly Phoenix, then Firebird, now Firefox.  They are clearly hell-bent on some sort of flaming animal, no matter how many tries it takes them to find one that doesn&#8217;t infringe.<\/p>\n<p>The word reminds me of foxfire &mdash; the phosphorescence which decaying wood can give off.  I&#8217;ve seen this before, during a Hudson valley ramble in the dark dark woods.  It was a beautiful blue-green &mdash; shocking &mdash; unimagined; and I figured I&#8217;d propagate it in my dorm room, eventually illuminating the entire space in the most eerie and natural way imaginable.  I took a cool, damp hunk with me, and had its company indoors for one night, but it must have died &mdash; it never glowed again.  O Science!  Too oft thou killest that thou loves.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I&#8217;ll see foxfire again sometime &mdash; maybe when I live further from all the bright satanic malls and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>Foxfire is in that damned second volume of DARE &mdash; the one with every single blooming word I want to look up &mdash; the one I can&#8217;t afford new and haven&#8217;t found used.  So about all I can say is that OED thinks only Americans use the word these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Project has changed the name of their stand-alone browser yet again. Formerly Phoenix, then Firebird, now Firefox. They are clearly hell-bent on some sort of flaming animal, no matter how many tries it takes them to find one that doesn&#8217;t infringe. The word reminds me of foxfire &mdash; the phosphorescence which decaying wood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}