The Chrome is out of the bag: Google’s browser arrives today

alikat — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:59:46 +0000

“A fresh take on the browser
9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.” read more

Update:

from blogs.pcworld.com

Official Google Chrome Screenshots

Ziggurat: Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid

alikat — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:38:27 +0000

inhabitat.com

Ziggurat will house 1 million people. read more

got meditation?

alikat — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:39:07 +0000

Forest room

"be water my friend!"

alikat — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:21:31 +0000

Hello World !

alikat — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:12:22 +0000

How the way people code “Hello World” varies depending on their age and job: read

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 8-24

alikat — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:03:46 +0000

Overall Medal Standings

Security flaws in online banking sites found to be widespread

alikat — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:00:55 +0000

www.ns.umich.edu

“More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed in a University of Michigan study had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity.” more

Radiohead - House of Cards

alikat — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:45:17 +0000

“In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. … ” watch the video

The Making-of “House of Cards” video

“Learn about how the video of “House of Cards” was made and the various technologies that were used to capture and render 3D data.” watch the video

Small world experiment

alikat — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:18:37 +0000

“The small world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. The research was groundbreaking in that it suggested that human society is a small world type network characterized by short path lengths. The experiments are often associated with the phrase “six degrees of separation”, although Milgram did not use this term himself.” more

WikiLook 1.3.2 (Firefox add-on)

alikat — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:27:38 +0000

addons.mozilla.org

“Definition (Wiktionary lookup) of any word, in any language right under your mouse pointer:)

1. Highlight any word or idiom with your mouse.
2. Move mouse pointer just a bit, still holding it over selected word.
3. Wait half a second…” download here