Google releases a shiny new browser called Chrome this week, which also happens to mark 10 years that the company's been incorporated. We have an assessment. Also, a famous French blogger uproots his family and moves to San Francisco to start Seesmic, a kind of Twitter for video. Then, we hear about the dark world of online poker, and some of the far-out ideas of geoengineering. And we wax lyrical to end the show, with the Large Hadron Collider rap.

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We listen to the music of Japanese indie rocker Shugo Takumaru, whose sound echoes that of those four lads from Liverpool.

Today's answer is Dawson City in Canada's Yukon. Producer Jake Warga visited a bar there and tells us the story behind a favorite local drink called the "Sour Toe Cocktail." ********LISTENER ADVISORY: This audio postcard mentions the cocktail's chief ingredient: a severed human toe.********

For today's Geo Quiz -- we head to Yukon.

Armenia and Turkey will play each other in a soccer game tomorrow. The game's a diplomatic breakthrough. The two countries have had a hostile relationship for over a century, after hundreds of thousands of Armenians were killed during the decline of the Turkish Ottoman empire. Marco Werman speaks with Suren Musayelyan, a sports reporter in Armenia.

Michelle Sison was confirmed this summer as the new U.S. ambassador to Lebanon. She's determined to connect with ordinary Lebanese. The World's Aaron Schachter spent a day trying to keep up with her.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with The World's Matthew Bell, who has just finished covering both the Democratic and Republican conventions.

Marco Werman speaks with author Helene Cooper about her memoir, "The House at Sugar Beach - In Search of a Lost African Childhood." It tells the story of Cooper's family in Liberia -- and by extension chronicles Liberia's history -- from its founding by freed American slaves to its modern civil war.

Helene Cooper

Susan and Dan Cohen lost their only child, Theodora, when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Scotland. Libya has accepted responsibility for the plane's bombing. Marco Werman speaks to Susan Cohen about today's visit to Libya by Secretary of State Condolezza Rice.

Rice meets with Colonel Gaddafi

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went to Libya today. It's the highest-level U.S. visit to Libya in more than fifty years. The World's Alex Gallafent reports on how the visit came about.