I know, I know, Google’s Chrome browser will use WebKit, which means it’ll render somewhat close to Safari.

But we all know it ain’t going to be perfect. And the magic of the Google brand will induce at least a million people to switch overnight, mark my words.

So now, a web designer has to work around the unique flaws in IE (6, 7, and 8), Firefox (2, 3), Safari (2,3), and arguably Opera (of a million small revisions), plus the new Chrome.

Fun fun fun, but I guess bullcrap like this helps keep me in business….

I’ve been working on acquiring domains to split my various interests into sub-blogs, which will be syndicated here, as a wider example of my writing. Accordingly, it’s my pleasure to announce DotPolitic, which will cover domestic and world politics from a netroots perspective. Watch for DotPolitic posts here beginning real soon.

Instant Rimshot
Sad Trombone (though the noise is actually made with a trumpet and a plunger-mute.)
I’ll be annoying everybody with these for a couple days, just as a matter of principle.

From the site: “The Nacho is younger than John McCain. For the first seven years of his life, John McCain lived in a cold, dark, lonely, nacho-less world.”

http://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com/

I like baseball, as those of you who know me personally know well. It’s pretty much the only sport I care about, and the only one I bother watching on television.

A few months back, I got the bright idea to try MLB’s Extra Innings package, thinking I’d get to watch games out of market at times of my choosing. (Every regional sports channel these days runs replays of the games during off-hours.)

There’s a few major problems with the service:

• The “MLB Mix” channel hasn’t worked for me, since Day Two.
• The games are just rebranded feeds of the regional FoxSportsNet, and replays are not offered, despite the fact that all FoxSportsNet channels show at least one replay of the game.
• Half the time, the games don’t actually show at all. I’m not sure if this is the notorious “blackouts” I’d read about, or what, but either way, it sucks.

In short, I’d strongly recommend to anyone that bothers to read this that you avoid MLB Extra Innings at ALL costs. Whether it’s the policy of my provider, or MLB, I’m stuck paying for another three months of almost $50 a month for a service that’s nearly worthless in the 21st Century. Apparently, once you opt-in, you can’t opt-out.

(Eat that, MLB. Hope my token $300 was worth a permanent signpost saying “MLB EXTRA INNINGS SUCKS” where everyone can see it.)

Fire eggs at Microsoft’s bombastic egghead CEO in this fun –and challenging– flash game: [link]

There’s an op-ed in the NY Times today making a rather puerile and pointless attempt to link Barack Obama to the more frivolous aspects of the character of the nation’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy.

Drawing some very tenuous parallels between JFK’s rocky first meeting with Nikita Krushchev, who opined of Kennedy that he was “too intelligent and too weak”, the piece seems to imply the usual right-wing message about Obama: that he is an eloquent speaker without much substance. Read the rest

As Fake Steve Jobs put it, “Honestly, if I could find that Hungarian egg terrorist I would kiss him on the mouth.” Truer words may never have been spoken.

A week after claiming they were done pursuing Yahoo, Microsoft has again made an offer. This time around, it’s so preposterously one-sided that Yahoo would be twice the fool to take it as they’d have been to accept Microsoft’s truncated stock-price offer the last time around. [link]

But that’s not what it’s really about, and everyone knows it. What it’s really about is taking advantage of Carl Icahn lurking as a stalking horse; the barbarian at the gate. What it’s really about is bringing Yahoo to terms on Microsoft’s original offer. Read the rest

Some of these seem to be platform-specific, but here’s a funny look at some odd results you can get out of your shell: [link]

% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans

% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.

% “How would you rate Quayle’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.

% Unmatched “.
Unmatched “.

% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].