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Submission + - Just saw my first green Address Bar...

Panaqqa writes: "One of the browsers I need occasionally is Internet Explorer 7, complete with its new security features. Today, for the first time, I saw a green address bar reflecting "Class 2 Certification" — GoDaddy had it. Am I alone in my ominous feeling that somewhere down the road, this green address bar will become an expectation for the general public using an ecommerce site, giving an advantage to only incorporated businesses who can afford the large cost?"
Star Wars Prequels

Journal Journal: Making sense of Star Wars 3

A number of people have tried to patch up George Lucas' leaky storyline into something coherent.

Here's an alternate backstory that - in addition to being hilarious - seems to work.

Google

Submission + - Microsoft and Google to fight it out in planes

An anonymous reader writes: The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the latest battleground between Microsoft and Google is in the skies
Google, Microsoft take to the skies over Sydney

The tech giants have separately announced they have hired planes to fly over certain parts of Sydney on Australia Day, photographing what lies beneath.

The Microsoft-sponsored campaign, orchestrated by the National Australia Day Council (NADC), is dubbed "Look Up and Smile". It hopes to gather hundreds of Sydneysiders at Centennial Park to create a huge map of Australia.
LookUpAndSmile

Google's plane flyover on the other hand is aimed at drawing more attention to its Google Maps service, by updating it with new, higher resolution images of parts of Sydney.
Google Flyover

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