{"id":1154,"date":"2008-09-02T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/02\/understanding-google-chrome\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T03:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T10:39:00","slug":"understanding-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/02\/understanding-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t wait to download the new web browser from the big G?  Pass the time by reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlebooks\/chrome\/\">Google Chrome comic book<\/a> by Scott McCloud (author of the seminal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=006097625X\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Understanding Comics<\/span><\/a>), which summarizes a lot of technical detail very well.  I also know a few of the people featured in the comic, and it&#8217;s a kick to see their line-art alter egos.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big believer in using comics to communicate difficult concepts.  I love Larry Gonick&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Cartoon Guide<\/span> series, and I even used his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0062731025\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Cartoon Guide to Statistics<\/span><\/a> as a reference for one of my first projects at Google.  Hey, I&#8217;m an engineer, not a mathematician.<\/p>\n<p>In my last year at Google, I started an internal company blog called &#8220;Googley Comics,&#8221; featuring humorous illustrations which employees would often email around&#8211;fake propaganda posters, Google-centric parodies of other art, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">etc.<\/span>  Most of the stuff was pretty esoteric or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inside_baseball\">inside baseball<\/a>, as you might expect, but they were fascinating cultural documents, and I thought it would be nice to have a central archive collected and annotated somewhere.  I wonder if anyone&#8217;s still maintaining that blog.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/\">Dinosaur Comics<\/a> knock-offs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/comic2-leaving-749597.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/comic2-leaving-749591.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t wait to download the new web browser from the big G? Pass the time by reading the Google Chrome comic book by Scott McCloud (author of the seminal Understanding Comics), which summarizes a lot of technical detail very well&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}