According to a recent article on CNN, University of Toronto philosophy professor Doug Hutchinson was granted authorization to legally use medical marijuana to ease his chronic medical conditions. Professor Hutchison has now become one of the 1,492 Canadians allowed official marijuana consumption for medical purposes. The official enforcement of drug legislation in Ontario, however, still has some gray areas, making it one of the foremost reasons why illegal marijuana consumption is commonplace in Canada.

What do you get when you cross Burger King with an XBox 360? Burger King Video Games?!

Yes, it’s true! Over at Kotaku.com, it’s been confirmed that Burger King will be having a go at the video games industry, starting with 3 new titles for the Xbox 360 and featuring in the game none other than the Burger King himself. All three titles will be coming to a BK near you on November 19th. And would you like fries with that, sir?

I was never too fond of my chemistry classes during high school. One of the reasons was because of my disappointment when I realized that chemistry wasn’t all about making bubbly fluorescent concoctions or blowing up chemicals as shown on the TV. All the hands on experiments that we had seemed too ’safe’ to be interesting. This great chemistry class in UK though, proved me wrong and demonstrated how classroom chemistry can also be interesting and dangerous - as long as enough safety precautions were taken to ensure the experiment was under control.

The chemistry teacher tried to illustrate the difference between heating up liquid and powdered milk. Applying a flame to liquid milk didn’t do anything much to it except turn it into a warm beverage, however with just a small spark on the powdered milk, it instantly combusted into fumes. The dynamic ignition of the milk experiment surely would have left a strong blast in the students mind on the impacts of a large surface area for chemical reactions.

Read the full news article here and view a slide show of some shots taken from the chemistry class here.

Just slightly more than a week after Microsofts’ official launch of the Internet Explorer 7 as previously posted at retrochronix.com, the Mozilla Firefox team also decided to debut their Firefox 2.0 to match up with the competition’s browser hype. While most of the new features showcased by Internet Explorer 7, Firefox already had them since its previous releases, the Firefox’s 2.0 upgrade does not come as just a repackaged version of its old browser.

The newest release of Firefox fixed up a few usability issues from its old browser allowing an easier way to close tabs, a way to resume previous browsing sessions, support for Javascript 1.7 for Ajax fanatics out there as well as better add-ons and extensions management. It seems as if IE7 has caught up to the standards of web browsing in the web 2.0 era, but still, I can’t get past their weird usability decision of placing the address bar at the very top.

Download the latest version of Mozilla here to see which browser you prefer.

The long awaited Internet Explorer 7 was finally launched today, showcasing promised features including tab browsing, rss feed reading, external modules/plugins as well as claimed improved security. On terms of layout, IE7 continues with the new ‘glossy’-textured user interface started off in MSN messenger live, in preparation for the launch of Windows Vista sometime in the distant future. However functionality-wise, all of its new ‘features’ seems to be copied straight out of a mozilla firefox. Also, I’m not sure whether it’s just my settings or the program itself, but the URL bar now seems to be stuck to the very top of the IE browser, and it is rather user-unfriendly.

Again with the new IE7, the Zune, Soapbox… it seems as if Microsoft is again doing what it does best, copying from its competitors.

Download the installation pack for IE7 here.

*Extra* The funniest thing about it is this -> checkout http://www.ie7.com/. Seems like Microsoft got the domain name too late.