Yahoo buys Konfabulator and releases it for free. Originally OSX only there has been a Windows release for a few months now too (seeing as how Apple took the 'widget' space with their Dashboard in Tiger).

Arlo Rose (one of the Konfabulator prime movers) also has a long history with Mac Classic GUI enhancements - primarily with Kaliedoscope. Which was developed in conjunction with another Mac Classic GUI genius - Greg Landweber. Greg bought cool 3D buttons, font smoothing and nifty window-dressing to Mac Classic OS 7/8/9 throughout the 90's.

Digital Identity is going to be huge in the very near future - Passel seems to be a new open-source offering in this area. I guess until it gains some measure of support it might end up going nowhere - afterall how popular is PGP or digital signing - both of these have been available as add-ons or built in to popular mail clients for several years now.

Someone finally adds basic voting buttons into the Notes mail template. Not really a big item IMHO but it will at least stop the whiners coming from Outlook that say 'Outlook used to do this; how do I send out my super vital Karaoke venue survey to the social committee without them ?'. Now if someone could fix the unread mail count bug and do a better out of office assistant...

Another great article by Joel Spoelsky on how quality beats quantity when it comes to programmer/software quality (or many other things). It'd be interesting to see the quality of the code produced as a result of jobs that have gone 'offshore'.

On a musical tack Popmatters has an interview with Bob Mould of Husker Du fame. Interesting to see his move into DJ-ing / Techno.

Rather brilliant Rollflat Camping Cup/Bowl/Dish.

PGP creator looks to encrypt voice-over-ip.

An American perspective - Too Much Work-Life Balance? New Zealand Thinks So.