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 have to say about it. But what say you, savvy readers? Should we download it? (Nothing to see here, Jobsian zealots. Move along.)
-- 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.
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!
The fallout from Apple's Boot Camp continues, and we in the labs are struggling to keep 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
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 Microsoft, you shouldn't help them by building tools exclsuively for their platform.
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 Compton" out of the deal. Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic even staged a protest on the capitol steps, and thankfully, cooler heads prevailed.
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 BART Widget is a welcome break from other widgets he's seen, most of which he has deemed "turdy." Victor's non-turdy baby is a cute little trip planner that apparently doesn't need a connection, so you can take it with you on your PowerBook. No mention of what happens when the BART schedule changes, however.
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 and Eric Rice's Audioblog software to leave MP3 messages for the public on their way up the mountain.
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