Random Noise

Cherry OS might be the best thing that has happened to Mac OS since BSD, if it manages to deliver (/.).
And while we're on the topic, who needs .Mac when you can have google? You get webmail without ads (at least for now...) or with tolerable and sometimes even useful text ads, good interface and functionality (searching, filters, labels, importing contacts from various sources), it's accessible via pop3, you can store files, blog and have a photo gallery with a 1GB limit. And the price? No, not $100/year. It's free! Oh and a lot of people actively developing tools for it should count for something.
People are finally waking up from the MySQL nightmare.
Parrot is interesting.
If I ever buy a PDA, I'll have to make an in-depth comparison between Microsoft Reader and Vade Mecum. Reader is looking a lot better from the outside.