If political news is a drug, then I need to be sent to the Betty Ford clinic.  The election coverage is just too darn entertaining.  Now twitter has a live feed that delivers real-time election-themed updates.  Check out: http://election.twitter.com/  Most twits this morning center around Tina Fey reprising her role as Sarah Palin. Bush and Palin have a lot in common: a knock against them just requires repeating their own words.

The essence of Film Noir can be boiled down to uncompromising coolness. This blogger rounds up a few lessons we can learn from watching Boggy and Bacal:
13 Marketing Lessons from Film Noire

Here's a snipit:

Rick: I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Renault: But we’re in the middle of the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
-Casablanca

Lesson 8: Know where your customers are. Don’t go searching for water in the desert.

The Battle of the Search Enginges personified:

See: searchenginerapbattle.com

Google just released their own web browser, offering yet another alternative to IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Like Safari, it's built on the Webkit stack running a homebrewed "V8" engine that is supposed to be like running java on nitrogen.
I just started messing around with the browser, but so far, I am impressed. Initial impressions:
Quick as lightening. Google pages like gmail, youtube, and spreadsheets seem to load faster than ever.
Simple, intuitive UI with some novel features that add functionality without adding complexity (eg. new tabs show a "mosaic"-like selection of sites that you visit the most)

More updates later.
[EDIT]
Lifehacker has a great "first look" at Chrome and its features.
[EDIT 2]
They've [Lifehacker] also done some benchmarking.  Looks like the speed crown goes to Google's new creation.  I particularly like the Google Gears integration that can turn any webpage into a desktop app.  For example, I can launch Gmail from my desktop in a fraction of a second, instead of waiting for my Firefox to reload just to check mail.