AOL 8.0 beta is being tested and IE, not Mozilla, is the default browser.

Owen Brigg’s has put together an excellent “Panic Guide” to CSS — worth a bookmark, for everyone one from novices to experts.

Lee and I have been talking about doing a project for a while involving a huge world map and some co-operation from friends. The problem has been finding the map, now (thanks to a plug from Zeldman), our quest may be over.

I’ve written about CanWest’s ham-fisted editorial policies before, but deep-down I never really felt it’d be as stupid as to actually fire a publisher who contradicted them. As news junkies are, by now, well aware Russell Mills was fired for contradicting in the Ottawa Citizen CanWest’s official editorial stance. This occurred the day after he spoke about press freedoms when he was awarded an honourary doctorate.

Read the coverage from:

• The Globe and Mail
  • “What the Mills affair reveals about the PM, Aspers”
  • “Publisher's firing sets off storm”
  • “Take two Aspers, call Winnipeg”
  • “CanWest announces corporate shakeup”
  • “Opinions Ltd.”
• The Toronto Star
  • “How survivor fell afoul of CanWest”
  • “Publisher's ouster sparks an uproar”
• CanWest’s canada.com
  • Search for “russell mills publisher”
• BBC
  • “Canadian leader in press freedom row”
• Reuters
  • “Reporters Back Boss Fired for Assailing Canada PM”
  • “Canadian Publisher Fired After His Paper Raps PM”

Also worth a read is the CAJ’s statement about the firing.

And the carnage continues today: columnists Ashok Chandwani (Montreal Gazette) and Gordon Gibson (Vancouver Sun) are rumoured to have been fired — the latter’s fate was potentially sealed after writing this column: “Media right to target PM.”

Calculators, calculators! Who wants some calculators?