While I was overly enthusiastic about Safari 4 Beta, Chromium for Mac has better looking tabs.

First webpage loaded in Mac Chromium

Tabs in Safari 4, and even Firefox depending on the theme, don’t clearly show which is on top.  Tabs on Safari look alien, where Chromium’s tabs fit in nicely, and makes very clear which is active.

Alien tabs in Safari 4 beta

Wired’s article on the current state of Chromium for Mac OS X.

Try this in IE: Chrome Experiments (News.com)

I have to remember to allow the JavaScript.  Firefox has capable JavaScript, but I disable it with NoScript.  Richer stuff without Flash is great, but sites should still be functional without JavaScript.  Weather.com is just broken without JavaScript.

Maybe the calender itself itsn’t nuclear powered, but Wired reports on the Miss Atom 2009 beauty competition.

The nice thing about an economic downturn is low prices. Bestbuy is offering, advertising even, $400 laptop computers. On recent trips through BestBuy, I notice many laptops for $400. Not until recently have such been so readily found. Previously, the record low price laptop was around $450, but only with discounts, usually mail-in rebates.

RadioShack is offering a $349 netbook. The specifications are pretty fantastic. It is plenty adequate for running Windows XP and most software most people would run. Biggest drawback is the shrunken keyboard. Dell offers a Mini 12. most exciting about Dell’s Minu 12 is it’s like, 12 inches, and runs Linux. The important things about Linux are:

• the free software
• customiziation: striping the software to the essentials of email, web and xterm.
• the lightweight XFCE desktop environment.

The Dell Mini 12 seems great, but Dell’s chat support tells me the keyboard is the same size the as the Mini 10. Now, they are offering a 9 inch for $200. Typing is just horrible on such small keybaords. That is why Apple uses a full size keyboard and 13 inch screen in the MacBook Air.

I’m still waiting for the 12 inch $300 laptop. At this price I don’t expect much: email, web browser X and xterm. Battery life can be great with suffiently low performance. The RadioShack netbook mentioned above boasts a six-hour battery! How many hours do you get from your laptop?

Looking for the Midori browser, Google turned up

• Midori a classical violinist
• Midori liqueur US world Wiki

Other intriguing stuff on the Internet.

• Truck Vs Macbook Pro
• space station named Colbert. At least it’s not Coltrane.
• Sad. LoJack for Toddlers

Now that’s a simple illustration of the credit crisis we got ourselves in.  It’s also another example of a collegiate single serving website.

William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931. (wiki, wired, .com).

I rush to catch the early bus, but before it rounds the corner after I get on, the bus loses a tire. The tire was gone as in HTTP 410 Gone. The bus was running on the rim, leaving a mark in the concrete, flattening it’s rim. Nine other wheels, with tires, and the bus couldn’t keep the rim off the road. No spare tire. The drive let everyone off. Metro didn’t send a replacement bus, nor a service vehicle to replace the tire. We just waited forty minutes until the next bus on the schedule came by. I start forty minutes early, and clock-in three minutes late.

Dog Retrieves Guinness

Seeing this adorable canine at CuteOverload.com fetching a can on Guinness shows there is good service in this world. The contributor’s picture can be found on flickr and his homepage has some adorable dog photographs online too.

This unbelievable picture could be recaptioned, “DISBELIEF, prefering Guinness over dead rat.”

Star Wars asciimation — telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl (port 23)

– from telnet.org

See also asciimation.co.nz.

Miss “A” Utility Knife by Miss Army!!

Swiss Army knife for women

Always ready for that next emergency.  Cracked nail, cuticle overhang, busted bra, ripped appendix… no emergency is too big or small!! This handy dandy Miss A Knife is cutting edge with these fabulous features:

• Flashlight
• Screwdriver
• Keychain
• Needle & Thread
• Perfume Bottle
• Mirror
• Pill Box
• Knife
• Safety Pin
• Pen
• Tweezers
• Bottle Opener

The Miss A Knife is Reg. 24.95 Only $14.95 – from BaronBob.com

Futurama Bender Steam Beer T-Shirt

Beer Girls t-shirts from The United Nations of Beer

Beer brewing Bender.