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Other than work and having good conversations with cool people, not too much has been happening this week. (Heh, that’s a lie, there’s a lot of stuff going on, just not stuff I can talk about here… I really need to set up some sort of privacy stuff on nv.c). To make up for the lack of me content, I’ll point you to some other content.

Kyrce (by way of Courtney) pointed out an article on Homestar Runner. It’s largely an introduction to the site but it does have some interesting facts about the Brothers Chaps. In case you missed it back toward the beginning of the year, here’s another good article.

I ran across TAZL Design the other day. They have some very nice desktop images. I’m especially a fan of the XEN collection. They need higher resolutions though.

While I was listening to Music One recently, they played a mix of The Supermen Lovers song Starlight. I first heard that song in Ireland, and I loved it. I went and checked out the Lovers’ website and it’s crazy cool. You have to beat the levels of a space invaders type game to access the content. After getting up to level 4, I was disappointed to find that level 5 just says "coming soon." Oh well. I really want to get their cds though… awesome French disco house.

In Mac software news, Konfabulator 1.5 was released today. There’s a sweet new widget called iChat Bezel that does buddy activity popups. For example, when a buddy comes online, a notice comes up the says "So-and-So is available." Unfortunately, the widget was missing a lot of options… so I added a bunch to it. :-) Here’s the changelog so far:

• Choose which alerts to display. Show only "Available" or only "Away" and "Offline" - it’s your choice!
• Choose between dark or light background. I felt like the original background for the widget was too light. So I made it darker. You can still use the light one if you want though.
• Specify whether or not to show status text. Some peoples’ away messages can be really freaking long, and this makes iChat Bezel be Big McLarge Huge. Now you can choose to only see "Available" status text, only "Away," both, or neither.

If those sound good to you, download iChat Bezel Enhanced. Please give feedback at the Konfab forum thread. (Or I guess you can use the contact form, but I’d rather it be on the thread).

Playing around with that widget has just been too much fun. :-)

♫ BT - Somnambulist