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Don LaFontaine (1940 - 2008)

You may not recognize the name, but you certainly will recognize the voice. Don LaFontaine is responsible for more than 5,000 movie trailers and commercials, and will probably be immortalized by the phrase, “In a world…”.

Google Chrome

Throughout the U.S. people are relaxing for Labor Day holiday - except the folks at the Googleplex. Tomorrow morning Google will release a Windows version of their WebKit-based browser, Chrome.

iCal Events

I love attention to detail and progressive disclosure, especially in interface design. I was amazed to see that Mac OS X “Leopard” rendered my ICS file icons with accurate dates and even summary data.

Windows “Mojave”

Apple fanboys can’t wait to tout the latest release, regardless of the bugs and inconvienences. What does it say about your corporate brand and product image, when it’s Microsoft has to convince people their current release is decent (by convincing them its the next release)?

Phelps ties Ewry!

Tomorrow morning everyone will be talking about Michael Phelps breaking the Olympic record by earning his 10th Gold medal. Has everyone forgotten about Ray Ewry, the Purdue University alumnus who earned his tenth medal (with an asterisk) in 1908?