Oh my word. Google, who can do no evil, released their new open source browser today. It's called Chrome. Have you downloaded it? No? Then, if the mood should strike, do so here. Anyway, here's what Anil Dash, Mr. Beale over at Laughing Squid, Valleywag's Owen Thomas, and Jason Brooks of eWEEK and the Examiner have to say about it. But what say you, savvy readers? Should we download it? (Nothing to see here, Jobsian......

-- New Pornographers: Yay, the New Pornographers! We heart them ever so. Seriously. Heart them yourselves tonight as they perform along with Lavender Diamond and Fancey at 8 p.m. at the Warfield, 982 Market; $25-27. -- Laughing Liberally Local 415: Political comedy showcase featuring Joe Klocek, who performed on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, and Diane Amos (AKA: the Pine-Sol lady!), who has appeared on Comedy Central, A&E, and at SF Comedy Day. Show......

A new column devoted to the less-than-celebrated world of tech mixers, drinkups, LAN parties and other events for nerds and by nerds. Nothing says that computer junkies have to be anti-social! Monday: The penguin army descends on the Moscone Center for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Come celebrate open source operating systems, gripe about hardware support issues, and make unflattering comments about the BSD kernel. Also, Web Monday, a regular event for web developers in......

The fallout from Apple's Boot Camp continues, and we in the labs are struggling to keep up. For the record, we've now got our shiny new MacBook Pro dual-booting into OS X and Windows XP, and the process worked without a hitch. Once we bought another copy of XP, that is — they're really not kidding when they say you can't grab just any old installation disc. As soon as it was all up......

The food blog world is aflutter over the biggest awards ceremony of the year. The Oscars? Don't be silly. It's all about the food, baby. The 2006 Independent Food Festival and Awards are open source awards, only with taste buds, not coding. And just as Firefox kicks Redmond's butt, the winners of these awards are worth seeking out. Some are national, some are local, all are good. Those golden statues barely got a mention in the food-o-sphere. Seemingly only Bruce Cole, editor of Edible San Francisco, deemed them worthy of talk and then only as a way to explain why you're better off cooking red meat than watching the red carpet. His technique sounds good, but would some pictures kill him? As long as we're in meatlandia, let's just go all out: Bacon for dinner! More meat (goat and crab), SFist Sam, and liquid nitrogen ice cream, after the jump. SFist Jacob, contributing...

">After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States, a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian Bode Miller and liked it. They also took a few pictures of......

Well, Google is set to announce their Google Talk and Google Desktop v2.0 tomorrow -- but folks have already been using Talk for a few hours now (and the client has been released). Was the leak to create 'buzz,' mayhaps? Danah Boyd doesn't call Google (whom she used to work for) out specifically, but it isn't too hard to figure out who she's talking about when she points out that when your competitor is......

When we were a kid growing up in Seattle, we remember when Washington State tried to pass a law barring minors from purchasing music with Tipper Gore's infamous Parental Advisory stickers on them. Our grandmother, an honored member of the local ACLU chapter, even offered us up as a potential litigant in a class action suit if the law was passed -- we agreed, figuring we might get a free copy of "Straight Outta......

Now that BART isn't going on strike after all (probably), we thought you'd want to know about a great new way to plan your next trip. Friend of SFist Stewf called our attention to Bret Victor's BART Widget for the new Dashboard feature of Apple's latest OS, Tiger. We haven't converted over to Tiger yet, so we haven't really gotten up to speed on the new widget culture, but Stewf assures us that the......

Slashdot today points out that Cops on Top, the organization that climbs peaks to memorialize fallen officers, has been keeping an audioblog from their ascent of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to honor SFPD officer Isaac Espinoza, who was slain on the streets of San Francisco last year. The climbers have just returned to their high camp after cresting the peak, and have been using a combination of a satellite phone, open source blog software DasBlog......