Rooster Teeth have just released the first episode of the fourth season of Red Vs Blue: Familiar Surroundings.

Griff: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Sarge: Go up there and get him Simmons
Donut: If he keeps screaming like that, he’s gonna pass out and fall off the cliff
Sarge: Cancel that order Simmons!
Griff: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Sarge: Donut, get me a sniper rifle.
Donut: Yet sir!

Go download now.

Told you that they’d let you do this: Integrating Google Talk with Google Desktop 2. [via FG]

The only problem I’ve found is that if I close Google Talk, it removes the panel from the sidebar, which is ok, but when I re-open it, the panel stays closed & I have to add it in manually.

UPDATE: Google Talk has now gone live. It includes a new messaging client which supports voice as well as IM chat. The voice is currently using the XMPP protocol, but they say it will support the open SIP protocol later. Also, according to the comparison page, voice calls only work when you’re using the Google Talk client, not with any other 3rd party client. This is a pity, but hopefully this will change if and when they move to the SIP protocol.

Google’s new chat tool, Google Talk is rumoured to be announced tomorrow (or tonight AUS time), but it seems that the server is live now. I’ve connected with my gmail address, (see instructions for Trillian or Gaim here) and it works. I’ve had a few stability problems, when I first connected it kept dropping me off (Jeremy at Forever Geek & Om Malik have noticed the same thing), but it’s been stable for about an hour now, so I think it’s settled down now.

Niall Kennedy and Matt Mullenweg have got it working and had a chat across the Google server.

If this all pans out, then this will be a huge boost to Jabber, as that is what the service is running. It’s good of Google to use an open protocol like Jabber rather than just coming up with their own (ala MSN, Yahoo, AIM, etc.). It means you can use pretty much whatever client you like (Trillian, Gaim, whatever) and it’s platform independent too. Also, they’ll also be able to build a plugin for their newly released Desktop Sidebar. And if they don’t want to write one, I predict it will take all of a day for someone out there to do it for them.

We interrupt your programme today with this important announcement:

Pat Robertson is a fruitcake

That is all. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Google has released it’s new desktop search tool. The sidebar is, for my 2 cents, a great idea. The ‘learning’ news section has already (after 4 hours) started to only return my type of news items. There’s an feed reader and email alert panel too, the email alert panel will show new email from both your local mail programs and Gmail (if you provide it with your login details). Nice.

Interestingly enough, Google seems to have taken a different direction again with the RSS naming argument, calling the feed reader panel ‘Web Clips’. I’m probably only going to stick my most popular feeds into this anyway, as it’s a bit too confusing to navigate once you get past a dozen or so items. FeedDemon still wins on this one.

Simon points out that Google Earth now has Sydney in high-res, including the harbour and North Sydney. So now I really can say I can see my work from here!.It also means you can see the Sydney Opera House & the Harbour Bridge. Google Maps still has the low-res images for sydney.

Full list of updates on the Google forums.