Bunch of hits today from the links page of a Yahoo! Group mysteriously titled 132C. It looks like a DV editing group, anyone care to let me know anything else about it? Just curious…

Amazing. Phoenix for OS X seems even faster than Chimera OR Safari. This might be the fastest browser for OS X, and it’s just an experiment, built by Kevin Gerich because he “was curious to see if [he] could cobble one together.” Phoenix is an open source offshoot of Mozilla, designed to be fast, lightweight and cross-platform. I now have four browsers in my Dock.

I’ve switched back to Transmit as my main FTP tool for two reasons:

1. It’s really good.
2. I like reading Steven Frank’s blog. (Steven is one of the authors of Transmit and co-founder of Panic Inc.)

Six states still aren’t using Joe’s Filters: Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia.

This video makes me want to build robots. (2MB mpeg)

From David P. Anderson’s nBot Balancing Robot site. The Segway is amazing, but this is more inspiring.

Update: Michael Buffington wrote to remind me about the LegWay, a two-wheel balancing robot built from Legos. Also neat, but there is something about the videos of Mr. Anderson watching his little robot move around that’s just a fantastic display of everything I love about making stuff.

And I was seriously considering switching over to half-gig flash cards… 4Gb Microdrives later this year

All I can think of when using this navigation is WarGames. I wonder who it calls if you hold a phone up to the speaker? (It’s late and I’m too lazy/busy to find out)