I'm sure if you're like me, the riots in France have been somewhat of a wtf? moment. I mean, we all know that relations between the French government and the Muslim population weren't exactly pristine, but a week of riots and car burning? Luckily, the Christian Science Monitor comes to the rescue with a background to the situation.

So you can make it go up and down, maybe even 'walk the dog.' The real question is whether you can do something like this with your yo-yo.

Firefox has now passed the 10% mark for global browser share.

Finally, in astronomy, scientists have found what they believe to be the first stars in the universe, formed only 200 million years after the big bang, or 14 billion years ago, give or take a couple. I already thought that this was a theory on the books, but another study cites evidence for the existence of a supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy by monitoring radio waves coming from that area. Finally, if you're interested in astronomy you should all download Celestia, because it's an excellent program both as a planetarium type application and one that actually lets you fly around in your own 'space-ship' in real time.