I know, I know, Google’s Chrome browser will use WebKit, which means it’ll render somewhat close to Safari.
But we all know it ain’t going to be perfect. And the magic of the Google brand will induce at least a million people to switch overnight, mark my words.
So now, a web designer has to work around [...]

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Sad Trombone (though the noise is actually made with a trumpet and a plunger-mute.)
I’ll be annoying everybody with these for a couple days, just as a matter of principle.
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A week after claiming they were done pursuing Yahoo, Microsoft has again made an offer. This time around, it’s so preposterously one-sided that Yahoo would be twice the fool to take it as they’d have been to accept Microsoft’s truncated stock-price offer the last time around. [link]
But that’s not what it’s really about, and everyone [...]

Yet ANOTHER scandal hits Wikipedia, as former Novell Chief Scientist Jeff Merkey alleges that James “Jimbo” Wales, the co-founder of the online encyclopedia “anyone can edit” approached him with a proposal bordering on blackmail: the offer was to nullify Wikipedia’s existing, and largely negative article on Merkey, and replace it with one favoring him, in [...]

Yahoo! is in for literally the fight of its life. [link]
Chairman Bill’s minions are readying the financial trebuchets, and are indicating that they’re willing to undertake a hostile takeover bid for Yahoo! if Yang ‘n’ the Gang don’t accept their terms, the value of which have declined by $1.4 billion since the offer was initially [...]

The news that Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt had made a verbal commitment to work together for two decades struck me as interesting, because it implies that they indeed have a roadmap for much of those two decades already thought through. [link]
Certainly, Google’s made some acquisitions and embarked on other projects that don’t [...]

In the wake of Google’s announcement of changes to AdSense that would discourage “Domain Tasters” comes ICANN making a decisive move and ending the practice once and for all.
One more step in the right direction, and hopefully it’ll shake some decent domains that nobody intends to ever develop back into public availability.
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Well, it looks like the free tunes ain’t gonna start streaming right now, after all.
The Big Four ducked out of, and disavowed any agreements with Qtrax just prior to the service’s much-ballyhooed beta launch.
I’m guessing they mainly wanted to show Qtrax that it ain’t Apple, and it’s CEO ain’t Steve Jobs. If he wants in [...]

Georgia Pacific, you got some ’splainin’ to do: [link]
A retired fella named Leo Hill noticed that the TP in his rolls seemed to run out quicker when he bought a 12-pack as opposed to a 4-pack. This odd scatalogical cognitive dissonance led him to count the number of sheets in his rolls of TP, coming [...]

According to the DomainTools blog, Google is set to put an end to it’s involvement in Domain Tasting. [link]
This would help put an end to the myriad sites out there that are being used as nothing but Google Billboards with little-to-no content on them. And since ICANN has proven singularly unable to reach an intelligent [...]