From 6d53a59327c7cdf295640be7033af6dc044699ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhiming Wang Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:01:05 -0800 Subject: =?UTF-8?q?20141214=20The=20Google=20Chrome=20Comic=20=E2=80=94=20?= =?UTF-8?q?A=20classic?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- .../2014-12-14-the-google-chrome-comic-a-classic.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 source/_posts/2014-12-14-the-google-chrome-comic-a-classic.md (limited to 'source') diff --git a/source/_posts/2014-12-14-the-google-chrome-comic-a-classic.md b/source/_posts/2014-12-14-the-google-chrome-comic-a-classic.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..26f2d584 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/2014-12-14-the-google-chrome-comic-a-classic.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "The Google Chrome Comic — A classic" +date: 2014-12-14 17:42:55 -0800 +comments: true +categories: +--- +I was cleaning up my Opera bookmarks just now — I'm semi-officially leaving Opera for Safari. Of course, Safari still can't handle everything (e.g., Adblock Plus is still not so good on Safari, YouTubeCenter lags behind and I don't bother to compile myself — yes, I have a certificate, and some power user features simply don't exist), so I'm still going to Opera/Opera beta/Chrome/Firefox for certain tasks. But Safari is very nice. For the first time. + +I started out as a Chrome user (well, don't want to recall the IE days), branched out to the Chromium Opera, and now ended up in Safari. Not sure about the future. When I look back, something nostalgic pops up in mind — [the Google Chrome Comic](http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/). I enjoyed it more than once, but I never seemed to have archived it. So here it is, combined into [one PDF](/pdf/2008-chrome-comic.pdf). In fact, you can create the PDF yourself: + +``` +seq 0 39 | parallel wget -q http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/images/big/{}.jpg +convert $(ls -v *.jpg) 2008-chrome-comic.pdf +``` + +Here I was a bit lazy and used a GNU `ls` feature: `-v` for natural sorting of numbers (doesn't work for BSD `ls`). + +And here's page 1 of the comic as a teaser: + +![](http://i.imgur.com/W5pJTjl.jpg) -- cgit v1.2.1