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Blogdex was down this morning, so I surfed BlogPulse to see what’s up. It had been a while since I last visited. The new look is a definate improvement.

Password Safe reminds me of Yaps, which I used to use (and love) on my Palm. Both are apps that let you store your many passwords (with all the relevant info) under one uber-password.

I’m a minimalist, but Kottke’s latest redesign bores me to tears (jimformation recently redesigned along similar lines, but note how much better it comes off). Contrast the new Kottke with zeldman’s recent effort, which may be a little over the top for my tastes but, nevertheless, has some visual interest going.

Some technologies are just too simple to deserve a patent: not that software patents aren’t problematic to begin with. Scripts that create docs for souce code are common. Extending that idea to creating to do lists is not innovative or patent worthy. If the intellectual property lawyers keep it up, we’ll have to pay [...]

I once owned a old copy of the Harvard Classics “Five-Foot Shelf of Books.” Now you can read it at Bartleby.com (along with other great non-fiction, fiction, and poetry).

(Warning: pop-ups) createbands.com is a flash based toy that will amuse you for ten minutes or so…
I’m up late, thinking about (but not actually working on) showlister. I get lots of emails requesting the same features, which is a sure sign that those need to be in the next release. Soon. Soon. I promise.
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Lockergnome says you should stop using Internet Explorer (and he’s an MCSE). As a Mozilla Firefox user (and longtime supporter of the mozilla project [since release M18, baby]), I couldn’t agree more.

(Re)read Joyce’s Ulysses one page per day, via this site or via its RSS feed.

A few things noticed today, or noticed recently but never blogged:
A smart, brief post from Philip Greenspun on the future of Google. I wouldn’t be suprised if this were not Microsoft’s strategy as well. Migrating the Office apps to .NET makes it that much easier to create web interfaces for desktop apps (like they’ve done [...]

A, IMHO, good article on the current conflict in Iraq and a strategy for saving face in Israel and Palestine.
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