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Looks like Gustav dropped to cat-2 before making landfall. Some waves spilled over the levees, but the surge was well below and the levees held. The next two hurricanes aren't predicted to be nearly as dangerous. I feel that the US dodged a bullet this time.

New Kid on the Browser Block

Google has released their own web browser called Chrome (more info here in comic form). I'm trying it out now. While there are still a few rough spots to smooth over (that's what beta tester feedback is for, after all), the interface is innovative, and the WebKit rendering engine and v8 JavaScript engine make it blazingly fast. I'm unlikely to switch from Firefox as Chrome lacks that level of customizability (there are some extensions I wouldn't want to do without). Still, I'll be keeping this copy installed and watching its development.

I hope the Firefox developers will be inspired to make better optimizations based on this, or even to start using WebKit and/or v8 whole-sale. They're open source, after all.