Hell all over again?

Now that Google’s Chrome is making some waves (about 2 million downloads worth), it’s probably starting to hit web developers:

“This is hell,” [said an attendee at Web 2.0 Expo], to applause from the audience. And he followed up with a question to the panel: “What are you going to do about it?”

With Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, [...]

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Reversing Google’s fall?

Now that Android is out, and we can all look forward to Google’s first Android powered phone, will it be enough to slow or reverse the company’s stock price drop? Don’t get me wrong, Google is still a fantastic company and a darling in many regards; it’s still a dream job in the eyes of [...]

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Defending elitism

Oh my god, I haven’t been writing much lately. My apologies. I promise to amend the situation in the near future, but in the meantime here’s some excellent writing from Sam Harris published in Newseek:

…You can learn something about a person by the company [Palin] keeps. In the churches where Palin has worshiped for decades, [...]

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