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Chrome is not only fast; it's free. So why has Google been putting so much effort into developing it? For one thing, because of the rise of Web-based applications. These let you create documents and spreadsheets (Google Apps, Zoho, Microsoft Office Online), listen to music (Pandora, iLike, Lala), edit photos (Piknik, Photoshop.com and check your voice mail (Google Voice) online. "But the pace of innovation in the browser space wasn't keeping up," says Brian Rakowski, director of product management for Google Chrome. "So we decided to start designing a browser from the ground...
Year-end lists and new year's resolutions are as easy to mock as they are to make. But in uncertain times, reviewing and previewing are serious business. They let us imagine we can impose some order on the fresh calendar page - marking holidays, graduations, movie premieres, tax-free back-to-school shopping week - even as we wait to see which days, now anonymous or devoted to watching groundhogs, will be raised from obscurity to eternity in the history books...
Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King died violently. Percy's friends in the military died violently. But God let Percy down easy. He lived 40 years longer than Dr. King and Malcolm and made good use of that time. So many of us are indebted to him. We always want some special gift for Christmas. I suppose this time, heaven wanted a present...
...Let's get this out of the way right up front: I'm afraid of people eating. Some people are scared of snakes or flying or heights or other things that can actually be dangerous. I'm filled with overpowering, irrational dread by the sight or sound of another human being eating or drinking. It doesn't make any more sense to me than it does to you. But that's what a phobia is: a fear that has nothing to do with logic or common sense. (Find out how to prevent anxiety...
...that's all still in the realm of research. In my case, my psychiatrist - let's call him Dr. N - practices something called psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is more like psychoanalysis. But for the purposes of treating my phobia, he turned himself into a cognitive-behavioral therapist. For each session, I would arrive with groceries and watch while he ate them. I would calmly try to separate the sight and sound of a person eating from the fear it induced in me. I would try to retrain my brain to be unafraid of something that there was no reason...