Design star Jon Hicks on setting up a Mac Mini Media Centre. Love the British spelling!
Feeling geeky? Here's how to use the software version control system Subversion to automatically do version control for your writing.
Analyze Your Email Usage with Mail Trends. Nifty toy for Gmail users.
The Most Hated Song in the World. This is actually strangely compelling.
Awesome Apple Automator script to generate a PDF of the front pages of various newspapers, courtesy of Newseum.
Lovely blog from Le Bernardin pastry chef Michael Laiskonis.
Mark Gimein in Slate on why the next mortgage crisis may be worse.
For type geeks: The Rather Difficult Font Game.
Michael Kinsley: Writers Vs. Editors: A Battle for the Ages
Anyone out there playing with Evernote? This looks kind of amazing, but I can't get into the beta.
Everyone else has posted it, but it's genius: The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time.
Great Lifehacker post on how to create a lightweight Windows install, especially useful for virtual machine users.
Iron Chef fans, you know that cook with glasses who works with Mario Batali? That's Mark Ladner, and he's an awesome cook his own self.
Flickr launches video: 90 second limit on clips. They're clearly viewing this as a more personal video site, rather than old Sanford and Son episodes.
Greetings from Nike: here for the launch of their products for the Beijing Olympics, including some really interesting shoes designed around the same principles as suspension bridges....
Ooo, cool. Hacked firmware for Canon cameras.
South Park: Still funny, especially this riff on Internet video from last night. Valleywag collects the inspirations.
Ask Metafilter: What are the best printed catalogs?