Fun hack to get rid of things like your Safeway card: WalletCards on iPhone
Why is it that I don't have an original Xbox? Becuase Gina over at Lifehacker has a tutorial on how XBMC turns your Mac into the ultimate media center.
Trying out this Mac application that acts as a front-end to your Gmail data: Mailplane 2.0 beta.
Downloadable version of an interesting Getting Things Done series over at the Tools for Thought blog: A Pattern Language for Productivity.
Portfolio is reporting that Apple and HBO are close to a deal to bring HBO shows to iTunes. The big news? Supposedly, HBO will be allowed to do variable pricing, which Apple has refused to do in the past. Give me The Wire!
How have I been unaware of the spectacular politics math geekery at FiveThirtyEight.com?
Nokia's got a GPS sports tracker application in the N95: Here's my lunch ride just now.
Ten years ago today: Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros. A month later, I was interviewing him for SI for Kids.
Over at NY Magazine, Kurt Andersen asks If Barack Obama Is Out of Touch With America, Is the Media Too? Smart column.
Ben Fry's map of the US, constructed just from the streets in the country. Amazing how the roads define the territory.
If you're dual booting your computer, you might want to check out NTFS-3G, a driver to mount Windows NTFS drives from the Mac OS.
The Onion's AV Club has up a great primer on Elvis Costello, part of a fun series that has also covered Alan Moore and The Rolling Stones, among others.
So, what do you think? Interesting to strip away all the color, right? Let me know in the comments.
Can you tell I'm thinking about typography? 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web, from my new favorite design site, Smashing Magazine.
Shame on Microsoft. Their "PlaysForSure" DRM scheme, which they pushed for years as a good solution for consumers, will be turned off on August 31. That means that songs you bought will still work, but if you change computers, or hardware, you'll be out of luck. This, my friends, is why DRM sucks.
You can hack the URL for the new CNN t-shirt maker to create your own.