I guess today I'll present my "Technological Innovation Everyone Talks About That I Was Way Late To The Party On, But Still Rules" award. The winner for 2004? Mozilla Firefox.

I haven't seen a pop-up ad in months (except for when I click on links in my damned POS RSS reader which I use very sporadically), the tabbed browsing is superb, and the fact that I can open stuff that I download without navigating to it is an extra bonus considering how cluttered my desktop is.

But the best part? The search engine plug-ins box. It comes "standard" with Google, but I've added a bunch:

Amazon.com
eBay
Allmusic.com
Baseball Reference
OLGA (On Line Guitar Archive)
Wikipedia
AP Photowire

So we salute you Mozilla Devs. Real men of genius, indeed.