wiki formatting an OS-level option in all text-fields
replace folders with tagging and views, so that filing and folders become unneccessary and the “shelf problem” (one book can only reside on one shelf) is re-solved without asking users to manually create aliases to files in different places. ala GMail
roll Growl into the OS

Control any application, not just Front Row (presentations, etc) with your remote, using Remote Buddy! Great stuff.

( press play button to listen while reading: )

My new signature file on all emails is:
“No car, no kids, no plants, no pets, no mess.”
( plus no kids with cats, no plants that smoke, no pets with plants, etc, etc. )

[This post was featured on the Rise of the Creative Class website]

A friend asked me why i left {my old job, town} and moved to SF. This is what i wrote in response.
I took a wild new job. and i felt like it was time.
I felt that by living in Detroit, I was working harder […]

hello,
i’m frustrated by the fact that Apartment Therapy, one of my
favorite sites, is one of my least favorite feeds because so little of
the content appears in the feed — just the initial, truncated
sentence. my conversations with feed wizards Feedburner.com have led me
to believe that users really, REALLY prefer full-content feeds, and
that users will even prefer […]

The word on the street is it could be extremely crashy. Does anyone have any feedback to confirm or deny this?
VLC media player 0.8.6a on VersionTracker

So you want to install Trac, the rad Wiki / Ticket system / Subversion front-end / Juicer, but server administration crap really isn’t your thing? Daunted by the disgustingly long list of instructions sprayed across 20 different websites? Never fear, I’ll hold your hand. This will only hurt a little…

download SWIG (simplified wrapper and interface […]

[editor: this post is unfinished, but the statute of limitations has passed, so i’m making it available anyways. show your work. :-]
Strangely, I’ve noticed that the software I pay for legally, out of respect for the developers and the value it brings to me, not to mention the desire not to be arrested, ends up […]

Old skin don’t you know this face /
Nothing to be gained here in this place.
Cold wind blew my spirit away /
I outta get out of this place.
Feel a bit false…
uneasy.
Feel a bit false…
uneasy.
…one of these days.
- laika

Propellerheads software team (creator of ReBirth and Reason)’s original website where each developer had a .plan file he would update with the details of whatever problem he was working on at the time
umich .plan files, which my geek friends filled in with status messages, funny quotes, and textual versions of their one-page homepages.
the unix ‘who‘ […]