#FF00AA

@apple@

Here’s a nice new iPhone mockup — it looks sleek, and the dialing interface is an interesting idea (although it’s not quite more efficient than a 0-9 keypad, it just looks cool).

 

@music@

Kottke complains about theme music on netcasts. I agree that “filling airtime” with music is stupid and irrelevant — I hate netcasts that play songs between segments — but a title sequence (or whatever it’s appropriately called) is absolutely needed for people listening to netcasts one after another on their iPods.

 

@web@

An unexpected surprise, listening to an old Floss Weekly episode: Slashdot’s CmdrTaco sounds very cool — surprisingly so for someone who created such an… a… you know, that thing.

 

@misc@

And either the news is still amazingly slow, or I’m really getting out of touch. Although maybe it’s just that everyone is leaving room for the big console launches, which I don’t intend to cover here (and the Zune, but I’ve written more than enough about that one already — the install is hostile and the software is buggy? what a shocker!).