David Young of Joyent extolls the benefits of using Sun over Dell or HP in - Sunshine. He'd written a previous article about how Dell had a superior sales model but it sounds like he had some problems with their product and in spite of the hassles dealing with Sun he switched.

Beautiful - Zoomorphic Calligraphy. Before the age of the PC we all had to make do with stencils and calligraphy books to add flair to our school projects. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it.

Interesting - System Security in SolarisTM 10: Privileges and Zones in Perspective - Part 1.

Another tool get get some extra use from your Frontrow Remote.

Interesting - BumpTop is an alternative desktop concept. Heres a good critique. Theres a pointer to a similar prototype File Piles.

Looks interesting if a little to similar to the super duper Windows Vista Start menu - New Gnome Main Menu.

Is Apple looking at a new Kernel to repalce Mach ? Rumours are rife(ish).

Interesting - Why Apple doesn't open source its apps. I find the points John makes to be a little misguided - the open source alternatives on OS X are almost (the media apps are tough to beat - iTunes, iMovie, iDVD etc) all better than the built in applications (Camino and Firefox are better than Safari, Adium is better than iChat, Thunderbird is better than Mail etc) so what does Apple have to lose by open sourcing them - at least they could publish the file formats or use a standard format (I didn't even realise Apple switched from mbx to their own format between 10.3 and 10.4) ?

Mildly distracting - Watch Wikipedia Edits Live.

A true beer fanatic - A thousand ways to open a bottle of beer. I have my doubts about some of these . . .

Packaged Win32 Evolution. Replace Outlook on your Windows PC's.

Impressively complicated - How Exchange Works.

Great collection - Pitchforks 100 Most Awesome Music Videos. Some great videos here.

It looks like Adobe has plans for Acrobat and Flash coming together as Apollo. I wonder if it'll be transparent and searchable - a big failing for flash ?

Some nice features going into Notes 7. The Mac client doesn't look to have changed much since version 6 though.