#FF00AA

@apple@

Wow. Stop the presses. Garbage collection is in [via]. Silly me, expecting that to be announced on a Worldwide Developers Conference opening keynote. It doesn’t look cool like Core Animation. And it’s not useless like it.

Well, like I said, then: six months after Leopard’s release, you’ll need to have upgraded if you want to install the latest freeware and shareware programs.

 

@phone@

Sony Mylo: a wifi Skype and IM client with slide-out keyboard in a PSP form factor (or rather smaller). I’m not sure why Engadget calls it an unholy abomination — I like the design, and I would totally carry it in my man-purse.

Gizmodo has a quick video hands-on: with 320x240 pixels you’re not going to buy it just to browse the web, and $350 might be a little steep for a Skype phone that only works when you’ve got wifi (don’t mention IM: it “comes embedded with popular instant messaging services,” and that means Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger – such comedians) and doesn’t seem to have a proper operating system, but it still looks cool and, apart from the lackluster memory capacity, it could be quite a decent alternative while waiting for the iPhone to arrive.

No camera, though? Releasing a communications device in 2006 without a camera, with the market they seem to be going after? Geez, what’s wrong with Sony these days?

 

@web@

Kottke: How I Blog:

I spend a lot of time on getting the description of some linked text, photo, or video just right, so that the reader has a good idea of what they’re getting into. Choosing a 1-2 sentence pull-quote that accurately represents the idea of an article is key in getting people’s attention in a productive way. “This is an awesome link” is only going to cut it so many times; you need to tell people what the link is and give people an honest reason to click.

I wish more people understood that. This is HTML 101 (as in, hypertext), but somehow it doesn’t seem to be part of the “I’m blogging now” primer.