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Gadget Madness reviews the Green Laser Pointer from ThinkGeek: >5 out of 5 Predators agree that the green laser pointer is bad because they are usually attached to a semi-automatic weapon of some sort, which means the spillage of glowing green Predator blood. If you see a Predator, for pete's sake don't be stupid and whip out your green laser pointer and shine it at him. This really pisses them off, so don't say we didn't warn you.

Via Creative Bits (of course I subscribed): Free stock photography from stock.xchg. There's some very nice stuff here. The cool bit is that not only is the photography free, but you can register for an account and upload your own photography. I haven't looked into it, but it would be awesome if stock.xchg supported Creative Commons licensing.

Awesome.

Check out this "amazing" sample of the art of stop-motion LEGO: Spiderman and the Peril of Doc Ock. Cooool!

A week ago I commented that I wasn't sure about the way Apple was extending HTML in Safari 1.3/2.0. Quite a few others brought up the same point, notably Tim Bray (author of the XML spec).

Think Secret: Inside Tiger: A Look at Spotlight. I'm sure there are a ton of new features to go gaga over in Tiger, but I'm really excited about the new metadata and search features.

Jason Kottke (yes, I still read a couple of the blogger kids) has redesigned and it's pretty nice. Spartan to the extreme, but not unpleasant either.

Hmmm. Seeing as each Dashboard gadget is just a web page, I wonder if they could be delivered remotely? I can envision writing corporate intranet-based gadgets for use by employees on our LAN.

David Hyatt, Safari Master, writes about a new feature of Safari 1.3 (in development):

This adventurous fellow (note I did not say "suicidal fool") whipped himself up a home-made military grade flamethrower, and shows us how!

Well, now that the day is about over, I'm going to have to concede the fact that I am now 33 years old.

Ugh. I've just surveyed a small portion of the LAMP project management software world, and boy, is it in sad shape.

A List Apart: Working With Alternate Style Sheets

Camino, the Mozilla project's Gecko-based native OS X web browser, has graduated to version 0.8. It's nice, very very nice, and now I'm torn betwen Camino and FireFox.

Cool! Apple released version 2 of its Remote Desktop software, which is now VNC-compatible, meaning you can use it to drive any VNC-equipped computer, including those running Mac OS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, even PalmOS!

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Cool! Apple released version 2 of its Remote Desktop software, which is now VNC-compatible, meaning you can use it to drive any VNC-equipped computer, including those running Mac OS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, even PalmOS!

This is exactly what Apple Remote Desktop - which started life as rather an underfeatured runt - needed to start playing in the enterprise market.

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Cool! Apple released version 2 of its Remote Desktop software, which is now VNC-compatible, meaning you can use it to drive any VNC-equipped computer, including those running Mac OS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, even PalmOS!

This is exactly what Apple Remote Desktop - which started life as rather an underfeatured runt - needed to start playing in the enterprise market.

Joel on Software > How Microsoft Lost the API War: >None of this bodes well for Microsoft and the profits it enjoyed thanks to its API power. The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.

Another Word for Nerd: a good motto:

While assembling a ceiling fan tonight, I popped in our copy of Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan's 2000 non-hit movie. Jodi and I saw it in the theaters, and unlike 90% of the audience, loved it. It's slow and intense, artful and sometimes heavy-handed. One might call it "brooding".