“Launch early and literate,” comes word from Googlezon on its new browser. An online comic book explains the technical aspects, which the Digital Daily had to explain to me. There’s no shortage of instant analysis on the sudden release: more than 8 million search results by mid-afternoon Tuesday. And that doesn’t include the Mac and Linux crowds, which can’t run the beta yet. So much for the literate part.

Now Google has launched an assault on Microsoft, which has dominated software for navigating the Internet. But for those of us whose rhythm and memory were honed by the electronic game Simon, a pop culture icon of the 80s, Google’s logo for Chrome creeps me out. Remember the slogan?: Simon’s a computer, Simon has a brain, you either do what Simon says or else go down the drain.