Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-1-2008

• The worst book titles ever.
  Including:
  1979: The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution (Transaction Press)
  1980: The Joy of Chickens (Prentice Hall)
  1981: Last Chance at Love: Terminal Romances
  (tags: books lists funny)
• Things aren't what they used to be
  And here are some good examples of how they're much, much better than they used to be.
  (tags: reality news history)
• lego tentacles
  Ai Ai Cthulhu Fthagn!
  (tags: lego cthulhu)

Enlighten me, oh geekdom

As 3D versions of recent movies have shown themselves to be insanely popular - frequently raking in several times more money in the 3D screens than in the normal ones, and CGI movies should be trivial to produce 3D prints of, why wasn't there a 3D version of WALL-E?

Google announced its own browser

In case you've missed the 15 other places announcing it, here's a cached link to the post - read the scanned comic, which is by Scott McCloud and explains the ideas behind it.

It's fascinating, and I'm very happy to have them enter the game - they're using WebKit, which is the tech underlying Safari, the Nokia S60 browser, Adobe AIR and Android, but they're building in some very interesting variations in design.

Hopefully this will split the web space even further - meaning that more stuff gets designed to the spec, and not to fit any one browser. I hope that they attract as much of an addon ecology as Firefox has. I won't be switching until they have AdBlock, GreaseMoney, FoxMarks, etc. equivalents, but that may not be that long...

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