Lindump Wednesday

[yendi]

1. Wondering about the state of Google Chrome for Mac or Linux? Here's an update. No actual reason for the Windows headstart is given (even though marketshare and the potential to take on IE are the likely reasons, but Google won't be caught dead saying that), but it's still a good piece. Alas, there's no word on why they continue to bring out new versions of Picasa for Windows without offering squat to other platforms (can you imagine if Google actually ever allowed comment threads on their blogs, so folks could actually ask them questions?).

2. Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals that Cost me marks on my Thesis. From McSweeney's, of course.

3. Ken Jennings takes on lame stickerbooks!

4. theferrett on folks who send out the attack dogs. Well-said, not least (I suspect) because Ferrett has likely been a target of this tactic a few times himself.

5. The red-band trailer for Zack and Miri Make a Porno is up! NSFW, of course.

6. Asimov's and Analog are changing size and dropping about 4K words an issue (which has allowed them to claim that they're keeping their current prices, essentially providing us with the sci-fi magazine version of the grocery shrink ray).

7. Microsoft is thinking about the children, with all the usual privacy and security implications such "thoughts" usually have.

8. Coca-Cola is making a soda machine with four asses that can dispense 100 different types of soda.

9. The makers of the world's crappiest board game are bringing us The Game of Life: Extreme Reality Edition. They're seeking your stories. I'd rather they look to Robot Chicken.

10. Finally, Esquire's next issue will have a variant cover featuring e-ink.