Now that's how you handle media!

You buy the media, of course.

Minor story this morning, in the not-news-to-anyone-who-cares vein. An early announcement, just a day before the planned media release, made to ars technics, concerning google's forthcoming operating system.

Now, I say "not news". But curious discourse. Google has been long rumored to have been working on an Ubuntu-derived linux. (independant of this, as indepedent as anything is in the sociolect of F/OSS, is the Ubuntu based gOS, which does a pretty good job of mixing google apps with the gnome desktop. ) Likewise, the open-source google Android has been ported to the Intel atom processor.

Not news, but a curious shot across the bow. The story is that google is making an os based on their open-source chrome browser for netbooks.

Or, translated, "the company that has become a common verb is mastering the tool that m$ used for world domination and making the centrality of the browser the basis of an interface for the only bright segment of the market, in which m$ has had to resurrect XP and bleed money to prevent linux from gaining market share, thereby destroying its FUD metanarrative".

Curiously, later in the day another article appears in the NYT, which is more accurately a commercial for m$'s google-killer search engine. http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=384980&f=19