So you want to know when it’s a good time to buy an Apple machine?
Well, you might get this page after a little Googling, and it’s a lot of fun, but what you really need is The Mac Buyers Guide.
Don’t buy before reading it, or you’ll be like my brother in law, who bought two […]

This is absolutely huge. Somebody buy it, quick.
I’m talking about Podscope.
This is a search engine for podcasts, and if the technology they are building actually works, it will be enormous. I’ve tried searching on Podscope for a variety of topics, and have been getting very good results.
Software that automates spoken language transcription to text quite […]

The 3 happiest words in the English language are:

“Rips to Indigo”

No, I’m not going to explain why. I will say, however, that when I asked my boss what the 3 happiest words in the English are, he answered: “Not my problem.”
Nice try, Kevin!

I just happened to wander over to Scoble’s post on Virtual Earth and clicked a link …
It’s kind of cool that MSN Virtual Earth works on Safari. Kudos to Microsoft on this one!

OK, full disclosure: I use Safari for almost all of my surfing, as well as my RSS.
It’s good, fast, and aesthetically pleasing - an important aspect of a discerning computer user’s experience.
Since the latest update (I’m using Safari 2.0 build 412.2), I’ve only run across one site that does not work properly with Safari. And […]

Joel put out one of his patented Joel on Software briefs today, and there’s lots of good reasons to go check it out.
This one was worth the price of admission for me:

The Creative Zen team could spend years refining their ugly iPod knockoffs and never produce as beautiful, satisfying, and elegant a player as the […]

OK, I needed a office suite for our new family iMac.
OpenOffice - yum.
Did I mention free?

I’m not a liberal or a leftist or an American, but I think that what this woman is saying makes a lot of sense.
Please wake up, America.
The world needs you strong and smart. But you’re getting weaker and dumber.

This is unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.
I attended a keynote by Alan Kay at a National Education Computing Conference a couple of years back, in which he talked about some of the things he was doing with the Squeak programming language with kids, and it was just amazing.
This guy is a true genius, he’s famous, and he’s […]

It’s alive. Click on the pic:

Yummy.