As a total Apple-fanboy I can't go without mentioning the cool stuff previewed at Apples World Wide Developer Conference this year.

Coverage of Steves Keynote -

* Engadget

* ArsTechnica

Engadget reported 600000 hits during the coverage - hard to imagine any other tech company getting this sort of exposure for anything.

The new hardware looks great - I'm not entirely certain if 'Leopard' will offer a compelling reason to upgrade the OS though. Shame they can't beat Vista out the door.

As usual I can't afford any of it but its nice to look :-)

I'd never heard Boris before - only read the reviews and comparisons with other artists.

Luckily YouTube comes to the rescue.

Heres a 50min video of Boris playing live at the unitarian church in 2005.

The first 5min are just the warm up before the drone transforms into some serious riffing.

I'd say they are similar to a more rock Bardo Pond; eschewing BP's searing psychedelia for Earth-like power chords.

Heres a recent review of their 2005 album, Pink.

I definitely need to get some of their stuff.

Covert web-browsing - Workfriendly - Browse the interweb via something that looks like a Word window.

Two brilliant photos depicting a high concentration of genius - 1958: Jazz Musicians in Harlem (Basie, Gillespie, Mingus, Monk) and 1927: Physicists at Solvay (Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Shrodinger, Heisenberg).

Interesting Poor Mans Thumper. Shame they're not looking towards a linux/zfs combo with a smaller footprint. Nice idea though.

Long running experiments - Longest Running Scientific Experiments. One of them is a clock at Otago University in NZ which has been running without winding since 1864 and relies on temperature fluctuations in an airtight container.

Awhile back Mark Russinovich of the excellent Sysinternals (creators of the excellent Filemon, ProcessExplorer and many many more tools) site moved to Microsoft. He discusses his first week at Microsoft.

Joels Spolsky - the first in a series - Three Management Methods. Useful for any IT manager.

Spoof comic ads by Alan Moore.