assorted sweets: 2005.07.252005.07.25

• How the lack of constraints killed the quality of Star Wars
  In other words, keeping things lean forces you to think, to critically prioritize far more than having gobs of money does.
• Side-Business Software: The neglected software market
  100% correct. I am constantly looking for software that will help me work faster, better, freeing me up for the important things. Important to note also that word of mouth is MUCH bigger for smaller more targeted apps. (We entrepreneur types talk.)
• The War on Terror viewed through Bourne Shell
  I don't know that I know enough Unix to understand every line (I get most of it) but the simple fact that someone took the time to write this out... amazing.
• Too Much Work-Life Balance? New Zealand Thinks So
  Scott's comments are bang-on. If you can run a business from a boat, or with half the usual workload of an office worker, and enjoy life more - good God, why wouldn't you?
• Solving the Million Dollar Mystery: 4 Steps To Create A Turn-Key Business
  Includes links to free tools to get started on the documentation. This is on my Things To Do for Q4 2005.
• Lussumo Vanilla - The sweetest forum on the web
  Absolutely delicious open source forum software. Rather timely, too, as I was just beginning to investigate how to hack the interface of phpBB to be one HELL of a lot simpler.
• iPod DJ Station
  This thing just looks cool. I don't know nothing about mixing no music, but it gets high marks in the pretty and geeky-lots-of-buttons categories.
• How to spot Arial
  It's weird - this has always been instinctive with me, and I'm usually right - but it's cool to have it laid out properly.
• Home planetarium
  Can project 10,000 stars. Darn it! How do I get one of these? Wonder if Sega Japan will ship to Toronto? No? Any readers living in Japan want to pick one up for me?
• Types of Stories My Mother Tells, by Ian Bakke
  I snorted Diet Coke through my nose. Literally, painfully so. Dad, don't tell Mom about this link, OK? She'd never understand...

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