Khakionion

Right, and I guess what I'm saying is that if I had said back during that spat of postulating "it'll be based around a Google-built, WebKit-based browser," I'd sound like I escaped from the looney bin.

This isn't some internal OS that's seen mucho use within Google. It's another platform development initiative, like Android. Wholly different from prior rumors.

Yeah, I've been running a Hackintosh up until now, this will probably be the primary operating system on my Mini 9. Regardless of whether it's better than Mac OS, it'll clobber Win7 on a netbook.

The Chrome OS is "long-rumored?" How "long" are we talking about here? Chrome is only 9 months old, and the web browser itself was kinda out of left field, no?

Obligatory:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/03/07/

The first time I erased a note by scribbling through it. *Poof*, it's gone. That was really fun.

A close second was it's "Eat Up Marcie" cameo on the Simpsons.

I presume you mean SoftBank, since Sofmap kinda doesn't compete with DoCoMo, or am I missing something...?

Nope.

Pretty nice, but I still like Transformer di Roboter's cover of Stranger in Moscow, which incorporates the Mac startup chime very well:

http://xylorimba.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/transformer-di-roboters-stranger-in-moscow/

I've made a Slashdot submission about this, and John Siracusa's recommendation that iPhone devs boycott the Apple Design Awards. Read it, and vote it up if you like it:

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1166877

It's being developed by THQ Studio Australia. See tsumea.com.