The Mozilla Foundation has reached thier goal and placed an ad in the New York Times the ad appears in todays (December 16th) edition of the Times.

A triumph for the little man

The ad itself is very well executed.  I had been long wondering how they were going to list every donator to the fund, per their promise.  I think they achieved a usable result.  For those who don't readily see what I am talking about, the image on the left is created using the names of all the donators.

One of the most striking elements of the ad for me is how well Jon Hicks' Firefox logo translated to grey-scale, I mean man is that still beautiful.  I think one of the most inpspired moves the Mozilla Foundation has made recently was to bring a talented designer on board, especially one the caliber of Jon Hicks, to design the branding of each product.  Very snazzy indeed.

And that is the real victory here

The funds that were used to purchase the space in the Times was collected through individual donations from people like you and me (if of course you value choice and use something other than the spawn of the beast).  Thousands of people opened their wallets and paid to get the message out, there is still some strength left in the world of geeks, there might be a day when geek courage fails and we break all bonds of fellowship but today is not that day!

Sorry... Heather and I watched the Return of the King SE on Tuesday.  Still a little on the brain.  And I guess this goes without saying, but if you are reading this and are running IE or Opera, why don't you give Firefox a try, you might like it.