I for one think this looks pretty damn good.

• 1:56pm - Speaking of which I’m still hungry.
• 1:45pm - “Actually, one more thing…” Apple Juice 2.0! “This is the juice that changes everything.”
• 1:43pm - “Never mind.”
• 1:39pm - “Hold on I totally forgot to mention something.”
• 1:35pm - New Air shipping in Nov. Since Air is invisible, no need for packaging. Arrives instantly once your credit card is charged. “Just breathe in. There. See? That was totally worth 2 grand.”
• 1:30pm - All new Macbooks are carved from a single block of an unknown material that was discovered 82 miles below the ocean floor. Ancient inscription warns of something or other about not tampering with the material. “Nothing to worry about. We know what we’re doing. Just shut up and listen.”
• 1:24pm - A new kind of notebook. Kind of like a sketch pad made out of glass and but better. 8 RAM Core GPU! Multitouch turtleneck!
• 1:22pm - 50% of all Macs sold in 2008 were actually PCs. 80% of those were actually iBooks. Market is growing. Market is not growing. “My jeans are made of titanium.”
• 1:20pm - Steve is talking about notebooks now. “Notebooks just another way of saying laptops.” Crowd goes nuts.
• 1:13pm - Steve and Bill hug for an awkwardly long moment. After a kiss on the cheek, Gates exits stage left.
• 1:13pm - People are buying Macs and running Windows. Bill Gates comes on stage! New Zunes will run OSX and iPhone apps!
• 1:12pm - Lights go down. Steve is on stage now. Wants to talk about Bootcamp first. He secretly hates OSX and has been using Windows Me on all his laptops because he also secretly hates himself.
• 12:52pm - Just saw Steve Jobs!! I searched Google Images and he came right up. Things are definitely getting started soon.
• 12:37pm - Getting kind of hungry. Maybe I’ll have an apple with lunch today.
• 12:30pm - Sitting at my desk in Pennsylvania which is like 8,000 miles from Apple HQ. Things should be starting soon. I guess.
• 12:04pm - With the amount of blogs I read it was inevitable that I would hear about today’s Apple event where they are rumored to be announcing the iTouchBookPhone Pro. I’m excited.

A couple days ago Google released the demo of their new browser, called Chrome. I downloaded it and tried it out (it’s Windows only for now, but Mac and Linux versions are on the way), and it’s not only the fastest browser I’ve ever used but one of the fastest applications in general.

It literally starts up in 2 seconds (or less). Only the built in Windows accessories like Notepad and Calculator load this fast (for me anyway). Firefox takes at least 3-5 seconds to start up and then another 3-5 (or more if it’s trying to piss me off) to get Gmail to load.

Chrome has some innovative new features like tabs that run independent of each other (so a site can only crash a tab, not the whole browser) and a really cool “new tab” page that shows your most frequently visited sites, recent bookmarks and even recently closed tabs in case you closed something by accident. But it’s also very lean in the features department. The interface is very minimalistic. The tab bar and title bar have been combined and the address bar has the bare minimum of features you would expect: back/forward, reload, bookmark, address field, page options menu and settings menu. And that’s it.

You can’t add plugins or themes and there’s really very little in the way of customization. It’s meant to be a simple, fast and stable browser that just gets out of your way.

It’s still in beta so some sites might not work, especially ones with a lot of Javascript and Ajax going on. Google created en entirely new Javascript engine called V8 so there’s still a lot of bugs to work out. But Google apps like Gmail and Reader are lightning fast. If you’re like me and have Gmail open all the time, you can even create an “application shortcut” for it that will open it in Chrome, with no interface at all, as if it’s a standalone app.

For more about the story behind Chrome, why Google built it and the technology they used, check out Google Chrome: The Book (illustrated by Scott McCloud).

Don’t worry. George Lucas is nowhere near this thing.

This is a fan video made by Mark Lucier and starring his two kids. I think it’s honestly better than Episodes 1, 2 and 3 combined.

via Laughing Squid

I’ve always had a weird fascination with anagrams. That is, words or phrases made by rearranging the letters in another word or phrase. For example, “santa” is an anagram of “satan.” That’s kind of a creepy example, but you get the point.

After coming up with such a brilliant name for my site, I figured it was a good candidate for the Internet Anagram Server (IAS). I put in “twenty ninth floor” and got a ton of stuff back. Unfortunately the IAS doesn’t know the meaning of the words so it just rearranges the letters in any way that will form other words. Most of them suck. But sometimes you get some good ones:

• Intently Froth Now
• Entity Flown North
• Rent Filthy Wonton
• Hefty Lint Not Worn
• Tiny Elf Not Thrown
• Horny Elf Wont Tint
• Thin Felon Wont Try
• Ninth Town To Flyer
• Tony Left Ninth Row
• Felt Thorny In Town
• Tin Tony Flew North

Now I’m not suggesting that these are hilarious or even funny at all. Just kind of interesting to me for some reason.

Does your name have any good ones? (You could use your full name, your company name, your stupid World of Warcraft character’s name, your imaginary girlfriend’s name, etc… you get what I’m saying.)Toss ‘em in the comments.