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Google is planning on stepping into the realm of operating systems. In late 2010, they are going to be releasing Chromium OS. Keep your eyes peeled for developer versions starting to circulate. They plan on being open source (free) so many may go this route. It is not yet know whether or not it will come already loaded onto computers but Google is likely to come up with a method that makes it easy to download and use on your everyday computer. It is pretty much entirely web-based and their primary objective is speed. It is going to be FAST and you will be online FAST. Watch the video below for more info:

This is a sea gooseberry (Phylum Ctenophora). If you are from the Pacific Northwest, I am certain that you have run into these at some point whether you noticed or not. They can be found all over the place, I have seen most of mine at the end of the pier in White Rock, BC. They are quite amazing little creatures. The lines along their body are cilia organized into combs for movement, while the two long tentacle looking projections are for capturing prey, usually rotifers or copepods. They are bioluminescent just like many cnidarians (jellyfish) and so can be seen glowing in the fall in the waters of the Pacific Northwest.

From the same family as sea horses, the leafy sea dragon is a rare but beautiful creature. It preys on shrimp and small fish but oddly enough has no teeth. Only found around the south half of Australia, efforts have been made to have them in public aquariums but with little success. They are very unstable outside of their habitat and have never been bred successfully in captivity. Consequently very few aquariums have them, Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of a handful. While looking at it you see the clear resemblance to seahorses, they are actually quite different. Their skin is rigid and so they cannot curl up their tail like seahorse and also move more like a submarine, mostly stationary using the fins along the side of its head to steer.