This is actually one of the more funnier error messages I came across running Chrome (Chromium) on OS X.

When trying to open an HTML file locally. I get this popup saying that Chromium doesn’t support HTML.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

And the rest is history.

Abstract
A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface. The shoes have a specially designed heel slot which can be detachably engaged with the hitch member by simply sliding the shoe wearer’s foot forward, thereby engaging with the hitch member.

Known as patent number 5255452, filed in 1992. This patent describes how Michael performed the iconic moment in Smooth Criminal where he and his posse leaned forward, beyond his center of gravity without crashing face first into the ground. It’s was an awesome moment, by an awesome performer. He will be greatly missed.

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MAUgAAAAEBAJ&dq=5255452

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Google released the Google Quick Search Box or QSB for short. It is in most aspects the same as products like Launchy for the PC and ofcourse, Quicksilver for the Apple.

You open it by pressing CTRL-Space at the same time, which is nice- it didnt’ hyjack my launchy combination.

One of the nicer features is that it is supposed to be a learning app. It would learn from my past interactions so it would give you results as quickly as possible

As you use the Google Quick Search Box more, it will learn which results you are likely to want. The goal here is that we get you to what you’re looking for as quickly as possible. In the above example, if you chose Google Calendar, the next time you search for “cal”, Google QSB will reorder the results so that you don’t have to arrow down to your desired choice. Instead, you can just type “cal” and press enter.

Scripting is available, but only for the Mac as I understand it. Or olso for Windows users, but just not that Twitter plugin they mention. Which would be abit odd I suppose.

You do need to install the Google Desktop, as it’s part of it.

Here it is

It is as an thrilling read as any good suspence novell. As gmazzola commented on hackernews :  ”It’s rather similar to the urge to rubberneck at a car crash: it’s both horrific and exciting at the same time.”

From the log;

Why has Astalavista been targeted? Other than the fact that they are not doing any of this for the “community” but for the money, they spread exploits for kids, claim to be a security community (with no real sense of security on their own servers), and they charge you $6.66 per months to access a dead forum with a directory filled with public releases and outdated / broken services.

astalavista.txt

Google just launched another entry in their Labs section called Google Squared. Google describes its function as

“constructs a table of facts about any search category you specify”

Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify.

• Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them “Squares” for fun).
• Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you’re interested in.
• See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square.
• Save and share Squares with others.

It sounds an aweful lot like Socrata. Where (essentially)  you can share datasets. Granted- the functionality of Socrate is now still far superiour to Google’s. But it’s in essence I believe the same thing. Or atleast on the same field (no pun…) However, we are talking about Google here who sits on one of the largest unmined (well….) dataset on the planet. It will make that data available at some point. And eventhough I was impressed by the concept- (Of Socrata) Google is  in my opionion just an API away from blowing Socrata out of the water. Sorry to say. I like Socrata alot…

Google presented Google Wave yesterday at Google I/O. It’s their view on how communication for the next web should be like. It is hard to grasp by looking at screenshots- so here’s the video of the presentation.

What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

So, finally after much wait and incredible anticipation WolframAlpha soft launched yesterday evening.

My first impressions are ‘This is incredible’ and ‘Wolfram|Alpha FTW’. I am not going to describe Wolfram Alpha for you, there are a gabillion other sites that do that already like here and here.

I am going to refer to the API though. And here it is. The Wolfram Alpha API . Get it while it’s fresh.

In order to play with the API. You need to register your app at http://www.wolframalpha.com/apiapplication.html and obtain an appid.

I am surely going to play with this later.

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