“Fac­tiva,” the elec­tronic news data­base run by Dow Jones—and sub­scribed to by MIT Libraries—claims when you go to it that it only works with Inter­net Exploder. Deter­mined, I tried any­way with Mozilla Fire­fox. Guess what? It doesn’t work. Not even a little.

Now how on earth have they man­aged that? And fur­ther­more, why did the design­ers get paid?