When not being swallowed by a lesser species, extraterrestrials have taken to spreading their love for the Firefox web browser throughout the United States. A recent Google Maps find going all over the internet appears to show the famous browser’s logo, crop-circled into a row of corn in what looks to be like the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Northwest. Ignore the plane, cars and people forming the ‘FX’ just below the field, this was done by real live aliens, man. Aliens!

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Guess we won’t get an answer to that one! Har har har har har har. Google yesterday announced that their first Labs project, Answers, is being axed. Google will stop accepting new questions by the end of this week, with answers being accepted until the end of the year. An interesting note is that over the past 4 years, the participating users numbers less than 1000, a shockingly low amount for a Google product.

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CogMap is the Wikipedia of organizational charts, meaning, a collection of charts online that anyone can create, edit, maintain or contribute to. A handy tool for businesses and organizational nerds alike, CogMap is a brilliant exercise in next-gen web design.

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Several years ago, Trillian was the end all be all for Windows messengers. Not the first, but certainly one of the most stylish and attractive universal messengers, Trillian was an instant web-success. Then things started to go wrong. Development was split into a free version and a pro (commercial) version. Both started getting bloated and performance suffered. But, Trillian appears to be making a comeback. With the newest version, Astra, Cerulean Studios are attacking the performance issues by updating the rendering times as well as chasing down the many memory leaks that have been plaguing them for years now. Many new enhancements are coming, including a widget system, support for MySpace Messenger, and many other new features. But enough blah blah blah, go take a look and see if you’re willing to give old faithful another shot.

Read more: Cerulean Studios offers preview of Astra