An Oddly satisfying flash toy to relieve a few of your frustrations. After that Harriet Miers thing, I think even my conservative friends will enjoy this one (via MeFi).

The wheatblog (wB) development team (that would be me, Josh, and Pete) released wB 1.0 today. Here’s the sf.net announcement (the ones for freshmeat.net and hotscripts.com are pending approval). For those not in the know: wB is the software I use here at wheatdesign.com to power the blog and most of the other static content. [...]

Because I get bored with Windows but don’t have a spare box to run any more interesting operating system, I’ve been tinkering with LiteStep recently (via this great installer. It’s an alternative desktop environment for Windows based on AfterStep (which, in turn, is based on NextStep). People call these “alternative shells” but I can’t think [...]

Feeds for the masses. Google has launched Google Reader, a web-based feed reader. Very beta and slow at the moment (it lost the first feed I put into it), but I’m giving it a chance. Right now, I use Thunderbird for email and feeds. But, at this rate, I may be moving to Google’s web-based [...]

Our friend Josh has put together a nice Konfabulator widget called CloneSpy (also discussed here, when it was still called Frankenstats) which allows you to keep track of stats generated by BBClone (and app I keep meaning to check out). His site is also sporting a tasty new design.