I love little hacks like this one (uses your PowerBook keyboard backlight as a visualizer for iTunes) or this one (ties the keyboard backlight to the CPU load).

Water is too heavy to load on airplanes for such frivolous purposes as showers. Unless, of course, that shower pumps out an electrically ionized mist that’s precisely calibrated for your height and body type.

I was one of many who pointed a couple of weeks ago to TribeWanted, the group out of the United Kingdom that’s building a timeshare eco-resort on a Fijian island. Jem Matzan makes a pretty good case that TribeWanted is a scam. I was suckered, but in my own defense I did note that, “The web site is a little too slick, but the concept is definitely appealing.”

MOG (looks like it’s a bit overwhelmed by the attention from yesterday’s launch) sounds like the right idea: get music suggestions from your friends (and their friends, and random strangers who seem to share your tastes).

I can smell the salt air on the breeze coming through my window right now, and I can see the ships that breeze touched, and where they’ve been in the last hour, in the window on my computer screen. Neat.