Google on static vs dynamic URLs

Google have just posted to their Webmaster Central blog about the use of URL rewriting to convert dynamic URLs to static ones, incorporating querystring parameters what the user and browser see as a folder structure, eg domain.com/products/books/193872. They make some excellent points about the difficulty they face in knowing which part of such a URL is actually dynamic, and which isn’t - a very interesting read

For more info on URL design, these ALA articles are brilliant:
Slash Forward
How to succeed with URLs

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Microsoft have just launched an MSN Messenger bot which allows you to translate text using their Live Translator directly from the Messenger window. All you need to do is add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts list, and say hi - it seems to work really well

Translation Bot

LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

Lucy and Bart

One of the rooms at dConstruct had a load of massive Sumo Omni bean bags/pillows, which were up for grabs at the end of the night, and which, of course, were snaffled by the people nearest the exits in the main auditorium. Gits. Never mind, not convinced I have the space for one right now anyway. Still.

Sumo Omni

Liu Bolin

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Google have just released a comic explaining the rationale behind a brand new Webkit-based browser, named Chrome, which they’re just about to release. They’ve really kept this under their hats - I’m really looking forward to trying it!!

Chrome screenshots

Google Chrome intro comic
Some official screenshots