Google’s new browser - quietly launched on the holiday Monday of a long weekend - brought about a few concerns from the blogging public - most of the “Google is Big Brother and the new browser is going to track everything single keystroke and thought we make from now on” variety.

But it seems ok from where we stand. I mean - what does Google not know about you at this point anyway? They seem to want to know everything about internet users searching. And maybe they do - but… so what? I don’t live my entire life on-line… If the best thing they can come up with is how to more effectively sell me something that I might actually buy… then maybe it’s not such a bad thing…

I don’t know. Chris likes the way it renders pages with flash and that’s good enough for me to like it - but until it has all 15 webmaster extensions that I have plugged into Firefox, it doesn’t really do me any good.

I thought it was funny how it came out close to another “End of the World” type event though - the Hadron Super-Collider is going live Wednesday!

I for one am excited to see what kind of data comes out of those experiments. I have always understood physics as another form of poetry - basically - we are describing and understanding the things around us in new ways. If the super-collider works and they can produce ‘big bang’ type environments - the information coming out of the experiments could advance physics in such a way that the language in which we speak of and understand our universe might advance.

All physics as we know it could be likened to poetry in the days of strict rhyme and verse.

And the fears that it will cause tiny black holes that could swallow the earth and everything around it? I don’t think its possible. We don’t have the knowledge to create that kind of power yet.

Now if Google started building a super-collider… then I would be worried…

posted by M. Nedell 9-08-08