This sounds excellent, especially the speed increase. I do hope Gmail (and other Google services like Google Notepad and Picasa) work properly now, they were the only reasons I still have to use Chrome occassionaly.
@Arceus: Excuse me? It's just a simple silhouette against a blurry background. A 3-year-old could have made it, and most likely did. Are you just trying to be pretentious for the sake of it?
@Arceus: No that wasn't what I meant at all, but that with a caption like this, Cajun Boy is trying to instill some kind of mythical or political meaning upon it (I suppose something along the lines of Obama coming to the rescue of an opressed middle-eastern woman), whereas it looks like it could have been taken in California or France or Laos or Australia or Denmark or anywhere, really.
This is actually an awesome sponsorship for io9, I really like it. Though The Sims 3's marketing budget must be extraordinarily huge, I don't think I've ever before seen this much different and pervasive marketing messages (from this to ads to commercials to wrapped buildings, etc. etc.) in so many different places and venues. The Sims 3 is everywhere.
@JoBo: Allof Sony's PSPgames get ported to the PS2 eventually anyway, I'm sure this new Jax & Daxter will be no exception. Everything worthwile for the PSP is available elsewhere as well so it's wholly unnecessary to own one.
I haven't read anything of his yet, but was wondering if you guys think they will ever adapt one of his books into a movie? Or would that be too difficult like they always say about James Joyce etc.