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No comic today, suffered a tragic loss on Friday. The machine i built five years ago, never had any problems with, took a turn for the worse on Friday and now I’m trying to run around and scrounge up the parts to build a new one. Hopefully a new comic to come later or tomorrow.

Cheers!

Today I bring you a warm and fuzzy video. Jonathan Coulton and Felicia Day sing “Still Alive” out at PAX. If you have ever played Portal then you will get it. If not, then it is the song that you hear during the credits after killing GLaDOS.

On labor day Google was forced to announce its new browser and yesterday Chrome was released to the world. One more bloody browser. Heartbreaking news because this means one more browser to test in when developing new sites. But, they do have some interesting idea. Read this comic book to learn all about Google’s new browser.

I haven’t read anything about standards compliance yet and Google is not known for making the most accessible sites. But, every site I’ve tested so far with it has worked like a champ.

Chrome is a head above the rest when it comes to JavaScript performance, something required for all google apps strangely enough.

So far I don’t see any native support for plugins and I can’t live without Firebug. But give it a try if you are interested in this sort of thing.

You know how yesterday I said that the new Google Chrome browser had blown away all other browsers in JavaScript benchmakrk tests? Well, Firefox has announced that their new TraceMonket JavaScript engine has outperformed Chrome. Something to look forward to in Firefox 3.1

My machine, she lives! After hours of surgery and taking the opportunity to rearrange my office at home my machine is finally back up and running. You know Vista64 is not all that bad. This thing freakin flies.

Now, what games can I install, I mean, where is my Wacom tablet?

Alright, I know I haven’t posted a new comic since last Wednesday, but a new one will be coming tonight as soon as I get home. I swear. I already have it planned out just need to sketch/ink/color.

That’s right. The Large Hadron Collider gets flipped on tomorrow. Incase you don’t know, the LHC will create subatomic black holes that will last a tiny fraction of a second before collapsing. Thus helping scientists understand how the universe began and what it is made up of. Just click the link and watch the video of a Ted talk at the top.

Some folks think that this machine has the potential to create a black hole that doesn’t collapse, but may persist and destroy the world. It has been shown to be all but impossible. This is just the initial firing up of this colossal machine, they are not scheduled to start smashing protons until October or November. All I’m saying is they better not ruin Christmas, I will be pissed!