I admit that I post about Google far too often, but this latest news is difficult to resist relaying: Google just released Gears, an open source browser extension that provides local storage for web apps using both SQLite and a small footprint web server for static resources. I'm not sure what the http server is yet - if you know, post something about it.

The worker pool looks super-interesting as well.

If only Apple's Core Data had gotten here first with an open offering for the web...