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It was bound to happen sooner or later.

Actually, the non-block. David Carson’s post Android uses WebKit, reveals one reason why Safari 3 appears so much faster than the previous version: they simply don’t block rendering while waiting for resources that traditionally block other browsers. Current browser implementations normally block rendering while waiting to download stylesheets and external javascript as evidenced in the [...]

Actually, I can see my car in Google Maps’ Street View (it’s the silver one on the street). I don’t live at the address listed on the screen; I’m in a cul de sac further back past those houses in the foreground. This is about three blocks from downtown Mountain View. All your house are [...]

Saved for posterity

Barry Schwartz at a Google Tech Talk discussing the “paradox of choice”:http://video.google.com/.videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200. There are “more techtalks available”:http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=techtalks if you are so inclined [via "webword":http://www.webword.com].

I finally had a chance to use the recently updated Google Reader, which I recall I “completely pasted”:http://sotto.org/2005/10/08/i_preferred_the_first_version_when_it_was_called_gmail/ the last time I posted about it. Well, after a year of tweaking their interface, I think the GR Team has completely hit the ball out of the park with the changes they’ve made.
One of my [...]

Not to be confused with their previously undisclosed Morning Missle Semaphore Manager.

Not to be confused with Best of YouTube, um-kay?

Or the importance of being Earnest. Or Joshua Bloch. Formerly of Java/Sun. Now Google. I’ll stop now.

Mihai Parparita’s phenomenal “updated GreaseMonkey scripts”:http://persistent.info/archives/2005/12/23/greasemonkey for Gmail are proof once again to me that Greasemonkey is *the* killer Firefox app. He’s added macros, labeling, enhanced saved searches, preview bubble and even “quicksilver”:http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ like functionality. My one wish? That these scripts worked with Opera’s “UserJavascript”:http://userjs.org/.
!http://persistent.info/images/gmail-label-colors.png(Color labels in gmail!)!
Which gets me thinking, are there Greasemonkey scripts [...]

Wow, the new “Google RSS Reader”:http://reader.google.com _really sucks_. How do I know this? Because I’m currently using the best RSS reader out there now, and it’s something that Google themselves had already developed before they released this lame version into the wild.
After trying every rss reader under the sun, I’d finally settled on [...]

One codebase to rule them all, and in the personal side project bind them!

Great googly moogly! Google Maps now works with Opera. And because Opera has the fastest freaking javascript engine on the planet (”benchmark”:http://www.24fun.com/downloadcenter/benchjs/benchjs.html and “try it yourself”:http://maps.google.com), my only waiting time is for downloading the image tiles that make up the actual map page.

Incredibly simple mechanism that plays to Google’s strength: the fastest return time in the world.

The fuck if I know

Some very good points are made, especially the critical mass exodus.

All proceeds to the store will be used to help the rich-on-paper-until-after-the-restricted-stock-selling-period-is-over get richer.