wow. that's quite an icon.

andy,

another great example of "selling with design" is william poundstone's detailed breakdown of the menu at balthazar:

http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/62498/

This can of SPAM bacon is to powerful to be consumed by mere mortals. I keep trying to mix it in to some meal, but every time I tighten my grip, it slips through my fingers!

Vern,

I have two different browsing behaviors. One, at work, I read mostly blog and news posts on technology and the economy. At home, I'm more browsing for entertainment (e.g. http://icanhascheezburger.com/).

Speaking for myself, if Google can make me more productive at my work, then they can have all of my work browsing history they want. They already accumulate an absurd wealth of information on me through my search history, and my visitations to AdSense and DoubleClick websites.

The browsing I do "off the clock" I'm a little more private about. In this case, I'd rather use one of Firefox's extensions to block Google and Yahoo tracking cookies.

I haven't yet deployed a two pronged approach like this, but I'm considering it. It would require some discipline in order to always make sure to keep the right browser open. [yes, I'm aware of "private browsing" modes for FF, Chrome, and IE, but they don't precisely accomplish what I'm looking for here.]

Chris,

I see Microsoft's response.

What do you think?

There are millions of corporate IT users that are trapped using IE6, which has 170 known vulnerabilities.

Do you think Google Chrome Frame makes them more or less secure?
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/11/

Andy,

Have you seen OpenSubtitles.org? It's an open source subtitling website that hosts srt files for more than 50,000 movies!

Fred Wilson recently wrote a blog post about using opensubtitles with boxee.

http://tinyurl.com/l22gs6

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marshall yount
chief technology officer, downtempo llc
www.downtempo.net