“Groovy Motherfucker”

Cory Doctorow’s spectacularly pant-pissy and, with hindsight, almost 100% inaccurate flameout about Apple including a TPM module. I wonder if he’s had the tattoo lasered-off yet.

Really interesting article on the TPM “Trusted Computing” chip inside some Intel Macs. Explains in detail that TPM != Microsoft’s evil Palladium scheme, and that the chip (which is not in newer Macs) can’t even be accessed without special device drivers.

Are you kidding me?! Microsoft didn’t register zune.com before announcing their MP3 player?! Wonder how that will work out for them.

An obvious idea, beautifully executed: Perspective replaces a landmark with its souvenir.

Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)

Java applet for cellphones which, on my Nokia 6682 at least, provides a better email experience than the built-in mailreader.

Could this year’s election result in a hanging-chad-like farrago which convinces the general public that electronic-voting-without-paper-trail is A Bad Thing? I don’t know whether I should hope it does or doesn’t happen.

Another great pop-culture T-shirt from Threadless. Shame it arrived a week after their $10 sale.