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Archive for September, 2008

Google Chrome is Sad To See You Go

With all the recent news about Google’s new browser, Chrome, bloggers have been comparing its start up times, memory usage, JavaScript speed and that our Google overlords own everything we do. But no one has compared its error and uninstall messages.

Google tries to be "hip"

It doesn’t really want you to uninstall it, giving the browser a bit of personality:

Please don't!

Please don't!

Well, Chrome, when you stop crashing I’ll reinstall you again on my NetBook.

Movies Are Getting Worse, Disaster Movie Tops List

With the release of the sequel to a spoof, “Disaster Movie“, Hollywood has reached a new low.  The bottom 15 worst movies voted by users of the Internet Movie Database, have been released in the last 10 years except for one.  And they wonder why their profits are “decreasing”.  Piracy, my ass.

15 worst movies as voted by the users of IMDB

15 worst movies as voted by the users of IMDB

Google Chrome Live!

Download Google’s new browser, Chrome, right now.

Fantastic Contraption is Fantastic

Fantastic Contraption is an online physics game that is centered around moving a pink piece from your “workshop” into another pink area, tackling obstacles on the way.   The player is supplied with 5 basic building tools, wheels:clockwise wheels, counter-clockwise wheels, non-turning wheels, and struts: water rods which can pass through other rods, and solid wood rods which can’t.  This in turn leads to very intesting contraptions.  Some of my creations below.

Solution for level 15

Solution for level 15

YouTube is also a great place to find funny things people have done.

Up the Stairs

Up the Stairs

Google Introduces New Browser, Chrome

in the past couple of days the blogosphere has seen numerous posts of people who’ve received a comic book in the mail from Google introducing their new open source browser called Chrome.  Google has since publicized their comic.   The browser is set to release today in over 100 countries.   TechCrunch has the first images of the new fledgling browser. Sometime today, this new browser will be released to be torn apart by the open source and blog communities.  One of the main draws for this browser over previous implimentations is its JavaScript support and speed.  Google has been developing a new JS engine called ‘V8′ that is meant to speed up script speeds.  Another new feature is that each tab will be ‘sandboxed’ so that if a malicious code on one tab borks your browser you can just close it.   Chrome will also use an address bar similar to that of FireFox 3′s “awesome bar” called ‘omnibar’.   This last feature is the one that I am most interested in.