Not cut from the same mold

• Gmail and the other Google Apps finally are no longer in beta!

However, beta lovers can turn on the Back to Beta labs feature.

• Other exciting tech news: Google ruined every Microsoft employee's vacation by announcing an open-source, lightweight operating system targeted at netbooks called Google Chrome OS.

Release date: Q3-Q4 2010. Confirmed partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba.
Adobe lightweight?

• VLC media player version has finally reached version 1.0. Current downloads/second=9.

Btw, Flickr has approx. 6.000 image uploads/minute.

• Enough nerd talk, Mary-Louise Parker/Nancy Hotwin (Weeds) @ Esquire
  

• Car tunes: Pennywise - About Time, The Killbots s/t.