Earlier this week while everyone was still focused on Hurricane Gustav, news broke that sent the blogosphere into pandemonium. Fortunately, I’m not talking about the election. Google released the beta version of its new web browser Chrome.

Besides being beautiful and fast, in theory it should prevent applications in one tab from crashing another. But this brings me to a different discussion. Why are all Web browser icons circular in shape? Look at Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer and now Chrome. What’s that all about? And doesn’t the Chrome logo look like the game Simon?