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Firefox 1.0 was released 10 years ago yesterday, and as a celebration of sorts, Mozilla released a new version of the browser that's intended to help users control their privacy online as well as a new developer-oriented version of the browser.

The main feature of the new Firefox release, 33.1, is a "Forget" button on the toolbar that can instantly wipe the last five minutes, two hours, or one day of browsing history, cookies, and tabs. This isn't a new capability itself—the Privacy panel of the options dialog has long offered this ability—but in Firefox 33.1, it's now instantly accessible.

The new release also adds DuckDuckGo as a search engine. DuckDuckGo positions itself as a more private search engine, one that tracks less user data while recording no search history and having no identifiable user accounts.

The flavored whiskey trend continues to grow. The first 9 flavored whiskeys are from Diageo brands, while the other three are white whiskeys and a sherry-finished bourbon. 

Crown Royal is introducing the brand’s newest offering and second flavored whisky, Crown Royal Regal Apple. This blend of Crown Royal whiskies is infused with Regal Gala Apples.

Crown Royal Regal Apple (70 proof, 35% ABV) will be available beginning in November at a suggested retail price of $24.99 for a 750 mL bottle.

 Jeremiah Weed Flavored Whiskies are three new whiskies made with secret spices. Jeremiah Weed whiskies are currently available in the following flavors for a suggested retail price of $18.99 for a 750 mL bottle: Spiced Whiskey, Cinnamon Whiskey and Sarsaparilla Whiskey.

 Seagram’s 7 is releasing two new flavored American blended whiskies, Seagram’s 7 Crown Orchard Apple and Seagram’s 7 Crown American Spiced. The new releases (71 proof, 35.5%ABV), will be available this month.

Piehole was inspired by grandma’s favorite pie recipes. They are a blend of Canadian whisky and pie flavored liqueur. This new-to-world product is available in three flavors: Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, and Pecan Pie. Piehole Whiskies will be available beginning in November for a suggested retail price of $14.99 for a 750 mL bottle.

Belle Meade Bourbon Sherry Cask Finish

Price: $74.99 750 ml

This nine Year-old Belle Meade Bourbon is finished in Oloroso Sherry Casks.

As a limited release, this blend of nine year Bourbon was then aged in Oloroso Sherry casks, imported from Spain.

Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee White Whiskey

Proof: 91 Proof

Price: $19.99 375 ml

Distilled from a mash of corn, wheat and barley then charcoal mellowed. It is single distilled.

Anchor Distilling's Christmas Spirit

Christmas Spirit is an annual collaboration between Anchor Distilling and Anchor Brewing. For the second year, Anchor Distilling Co. has distilled Anchor Brewing’s previous year’s Christmas Ale to create Christmas Spirit, a white spirit from Christmas past.

Every year Anchor Brewing creates a distinctive Christmas Ale, available from early November to mid-January. A rich, dark spiced ale, the secret recipe is different every year—as is the hand-drawn tree on the label. As a result of the Christmas Ale recipe and label changing each year, so does Christmas Spirit’s. 

45% ABV, 750ml, $49.99 SRP

Official release: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/64188

O-Live article: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/11/portland_street_fee_becomes_po.html

Relevant part:

Tax bracket (married, filed jointly) -- annual fee

$0 - $35K: $0

$35 - $40K: $24

$40 - $60K: $60

$60 - $75K: $90

$75 - $100K: $120

$100 - $137K: $192

$137 - $175K: $288

$175 - $212K: $384

$212 - $250K: $480

$250 - $350K: $768

$350K and above: $900

Do you know what bae means?

According to Burt’s Bees, bae is an acronym for "Balms Are Everything." Here it is used in a sentence: "#BAE Balms Are Everything! Find yours here: #uncapflavor" That’s not what bae means. Bae isn’t an acronym. The real definition of bae is cuter, albeit less monetizable. The noun is a popular slang term used to lovingly identify someone you’re in a relationship with, or would like to be.

That’s not what bae means. Bae isn’t an acronym. The real definition of bae is cuter, albeit less monetizable. The noun is a popular slang term used to lovingly identify someone you’re in a relationship with, or would like to be.

"Bae" has inspired a meme, written like "When bae [does something]" and accompanied with a reaction image or video. Here are some examples.

So why did Burt’s Bees butcher bae?

For the chapped among us, Burt’s sells lip balm. Because #BAE was trending, and because #BAE has the letter b in it, and because balm begins with that very letter, the company — specifically its social media attendant — took the opportunity to co-opt a non-commercial movement with a nonsensical advertisement. They took something sweet, and made it soulless. It's fadvertising and trend trolling.

This isn’t the first time it's happened, nor is Burt’s the first company to do it. The tweet is merely one incident in the sudden, mind-numbing rise of the weaponized dad joke.

They took something sweet, and made it soulless

For decades, humanity has suffered the dad joke, a brand of humor protected and perpetuated mostly by fathers. The dad joke is unique amongst other jokes in that it doesn’t require an understanding of its subject. All you need to make a dad joke is the basic understanding of puns. For extra dadness, you might include an additional phrase that young people used within the past decade.

For example: "Burt’s Bees? More like Burt’s Needs a better social media team. #amirite?"

In the age of Twitter, the dad joke has been deconstructed by #Brands.

#Brands lack style, taste, and maturity. #Brands see the internet, and its strange and beautiful power as an agent for communication, as little more than a vessel for marketing. #Brands co-opted and contort trends for selfish purposes. #Brands are ruthless in their commoditization of culture. With a humorless social media guru and a marketing budget that could pay buy a nice home in Manhattan, they consume moments and memes, and evacuate them as 140-character piles of shit.

You came to Twitter to grieve the tragic death of a beloved celebrity, but if #Brands have their way, you’ll leave hungry for pizza bites. Burt’s Bees is a #Brand, one of thousands.

The domestic abuse hashtag #WhyIStayeded? #DiGorno

Pearl Harbor’s anniversary? #SpaghettiOs

Doge? #Republicans

#Brands are destroying the dad joke, a brand of humor as light as a feather and as warm as a Cosby sweater. A dad joke is a sign of love by someone, not just a dad, to connect or relate with what interests young people — even if the joke tellerdoesn’t quite understand it. The dad joke is a casual reach across the generational aisle.

But for #Brands, the commoditized joke serves a different purpose: to take what interests you, and turn it against you. A #Brand doesn’t care about you or your bae, so much as it cares whether you and your bae buy lip balm.

An article on Thursday about the latest Internet sensation of "Alex from Target," a picture of a teenager bagging merchandise at the retailer that went viral online, described incorrectly a subsequent Internet posting of "Kel from Good Burger." It was a frame from the 1997 film "Good Burger" starring the actor Kel Mitchell; it was not a photograph of a teenager in a job.

The above quote is a correction to the New York Times story, "Known as 'Alex From Target,' Teenage Clerk Rises to Star on Twitter and Talk Shows." I believe it's one of the finest corrections ever published in the New York Times. Let me explain why, then I'll offer a few corrections that rival its beauty.

Why is it a masterpiece?

The correction pertains to an already absurd story about a teenager who is only famous for looking like a more famous teenager, and who may be part of a stealth advertising campaign for his employer. So it's a story about what may be an advertisement disguised as a social media phenomenon about a celebrity who became a phenomenon through social media. But what elevates the story from commentary on the internet to microcosm of the internet, is that it should contain a troll of consumerism using a still from a movie literally about the perils of consumerism.

This story, correction and all, is the internet as ouroboros.

Everything else about the correction — the Kel Mitchell shout-out, the proper New York Times style referencing Good Burger, the phrase "a teenager in a job" — adds extra flavor just like Ed's secret sauce.

Has the New York Times posted a better correction?

Navigating Love and Autism

An article on Monday about Jack Robinson and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children's TV show "My Little Pony" that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover.

This Boy Band's Already Supersized

An article last Sunday about the documentary maker Morgan Spurlock, who has a new film out on the boy band One Direction, misstated the subject of his 2012 movie "Mansome." It is about male grooming, not Charles Manson. The article also misspelled the name of the production company of Simon Cowell, on whose "X Factor" talent competition show One Direction was created. The company is Syco, not Psycho.

Cheney Urges House G.O.P. to Abandon Isolationism

An earlier version of a summary with this article misstated the former title of Dick Cheney. He was vice president, not president.