Links for Friday September 5^th, 2008

• The story behind Google Chrome: Niall Kennedy takes a pretty decent look at how Google Chrome came into being.

• AnandTech: Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Reviewed: Refining the Netbook Market: Anand already has a thorough review of the new Dell netbook up. I am super tempted to buy one of these, and I haven't been tempted by a Dell for like, 8 years.

• Columbia calls up new 'Ghostbusters' - Variety: Well, I hope to be pleasantly surprised, but I'm not holding my breath for a true "Ghostbusters 3".

• Electronista | Microsoft to copy Apple Genius strategy: Yet another winner from Microsoft - they're copying the Genius bar, save for the best part -- getting easy to access technical help for your computer. I suppose that Windows is in such a sorry state, that there is no way that Microsoft could have people providing tech support to Windows users - it's pretty much impossible to figure out the root cause of errors on any random windows box.

• Apartment Therapy Unplugged | Poking Fun at the Google Chrome Comic: Some of these modified panels from the Google Chrome comic are rather inspired. And funny.

• Straight out of Compton: I love John Siracusa, and his take on Google's new browser, Chrome is great. I'm actually in the process now, for the first time in several years, of getting Windows XP running on a machine (actually, a VM on my iMac), just so I can try Chrome.