So I’ve downloaded and tried out Chrome. It’s cute. It renders well. It might be a teensy bit faster on app heavy sites. It does not, however, have all my must-have Firefox plugins (speed dial, ad blocker plus, stylish, greasemonkey, etc…) and therefore I will not be switching my browser default.

I’m not sure who Google’s target audience is for this. Folks who use google apps a lot? Multimedia developers? Kids who want the latest shiny toy? If they’re trying to woo over the Firefox crowd they’ll have to address plug in compatibility, as I’d say most heavy firefox users have at least one plug in you’d need to pry from their cold dead motherboard. IE users, of course, are the low hanging fruit - but if they haven’t jumped ship for Firefox, why would they go for Chrome?

Got bored, and I figured I haven’t made one of these in a while, so…

Among the news: the film will be more “romantic” and include a subplot about Connor MacLeod falling in love with a mortal woman, and dealing with the fact that she’s going to die.
-Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie, have you *seen* the original movie? Those are two of the main plot points. (Plot point #3 of course involves Kurgan and the choppy choppy)

On the up side (maybe?), Peter Davis is apparently involved with this bludgeoning of my childhood remake, and his actual quote ran like this:

I would hate to think that people viewed Highlander as a sword fighting movie because it’s much more than that. The issues of an immortal falling in love with a woman and knowing she’s going to grow old and die in your arms, those are very romantic issues to deal with.

These aren’t new concepts, it’s a reminder to the *OMG swords!!* fanboy contingent that there was always more to the move than that.