The idea of a hemp MacBook sleeve is awesome, even if the execution is iffy.

"So how old is your iPhone? I would argue that some aspects of the design were surprisingly dated on delivery." I suspect that users want iPhones because the UI is familiar. Learning a new phone UI is a pain.

John Gruber makes some insightful remarks on the new Apple-EMI partnership to sell DRM-free music at a premium.

John Gruber takes a transaction-cost lite approach to explaining the idea of cognitive load. Not only do I agree that iCal requires too much user effort, I'd say it's darn near unusable.

Nick Carr offers a contrarian view of the iPhone.

The folks at Stay Free! are co-ordinating a project to protest the short lifecycle of iPods by making art out of broken iPods. I'll participate if someone gives me a broken iPod.

PC World rounds up old TV ads on YouTube. Apparently the dude-you're-getting-a-Dell are nowhere to be found.

I was looking for the "wild eep" sound from the days of yore and found this package of OS 6 and 7 system alert sounds.

Nice Greenpeace parody lobbying Apple to produce more environmentally friendly products.

Business Week profile of Apple's lead product designer.