On the heels of my girlfriend's appendix fun, I got a severe case of poison ivy doing yard work. I am now on steroids. Hopefully this will clear up the poison ivy fast.

• A 3-Step Cure for Digital Packrats, and How to Know If You’re One of Them
• 101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes

Had a rough couple of days as my lady friend had her appendix out yesterday. Getting my week on track.

• The Forge · Return On Development Interesting but fundamentally flawed look at Harry Potter and World of Warcraft. Worth a read.
• Good William Gibson Interview Spook Country comes out next month, I can't wait.
• iPhone Haiku
• Parallels to VMWare Disk Image Conversion I am contemplating the switch, since VMWare will win this development war.
• Google Optimized for the iPhone
• Awesome "I Believe in Science" Shirts Take that Creationism.
• attention profiling mark-up language
• How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart

• Facebook Acquires Parakey I think this might be a bigger deal than most people realize.

• FoldSpy is a great idea.

• Video: Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash just awesome.

• Securing your iPhone's traffic
• Nothing too "Lite" about new $299 TiVo Series 3 unit This is awesome news because, well, the Comcast HD DVR sucks balls.
• We made a major update to Super Deluxe yesterday. We added video views, a playlist player, series, and a bunch of other features, and did a slight redesign in the process. Note: This update was code named Jaws.

• 199 iPhone Wallpapers I've been changing mine every day.
• iTrapped Creative people rock.
• A Peek at MarsEdit 2 I'm a proud beta tester. He's doing some great stuff, and I am using it to post this.
• Leaflets More iPhone apps. These look nice.
• Shopping tip, if you have a Costco Membership, buy $50 prepaid iTunes gift cards for $45. That's 10% off your iTunes purchases basically.
• Smarter Ways to Work with PDF's (OSX) They only briefly mention DevonThink, which is what I use as a catalog of PDF's on my machines.
• Unclutterer: Gamer clutter

• The next WoW content patch will contain The Dungeon of Zul'Aman
• Moneymaker, the first song/video from the new Rilo Kiley. Hi Jenny.
• You can now watch a daily Super Deluxe video in an iGoogle Widget. (add widget)
• Firefox optimized for G5 and Intel Macs.
• iPhoneDrive Sweeet. Keep your files on your iPhone.
• Terra Nova: Our avatars, ourselves The conclusions from this research mirror my personal opinions, which have sometimes been hotly contested on the WoW forums. Also, Nagrand is my favorite zone too.
• inCase blogs about the cool "Topo" pattern on the back of my iPhone case Downloadable wallpapers for computer and iPhone alike too.

• James Duncan Davidson %u2013 iPhone Backup Data: Possibly the first steps to getting your notes from your iPhone to your computer...
• I make saba maki at home? My favorite, but I have never made it at home.

• We went to Tap this weekend. Hamburger with square cheese comes with a little chocolate milkshake. A little expensive, but pretty awesome. Hipsters will be all over that place for the next six months.
• OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette | urlgreyhot Handy stuff.
• test everything You should test stuff. This makes it easier.
• Ollie Kottke Wow. I'm so happy to hear that everything went well. With such amazing parents, I'm sure we can expect bg things from little Ollie someday.
• V-Moda VIBE Duo Pimps Out Your iPhone This is the headset I picked up for my iPhone. I was already using their headphones, and this thing works really well, and sounds excellent. Two bumps up!
• 8 Coolest iPhone Apps at iPhoneDevCamp
• Apple Form Factor Evolution Apple fanboy pron if I ever saw it.
• iPhone Native Looking Skin css and js goodness.
• Getting Photos from Lightroom to the iPhone
• Disguise Your Browser as a Google Bot and Get Free Access to Pay Sites
• Zune Royalties Apparently Enough to Buy Universal Music Group a New Set of Balls These record company people are idiots, and they continue to prove that hypothesis true seemingly every week.
• I posted a lot more pictures from my brother's wedding over in my flickr photostream. It takes a long time to upload 1000 pictures.

• Flickr Set of Telekinesis in Action on an iPhone and iBook
• Telekinesis "Remotely access your Mac through a collection of mini web apps on your phone"

• Screencast: Intro to iPhone development with Aptana
• iPhone/BlackBerry/Treo Comparison
• iPhone Works fine without AT&T service as a wifi device. Woah. That's pretty cool.
• Craig Hockenberry: Beyond Sweet Lots of astute observations worth reading here.
• 10 Great Flickr Photos for your Laptop Background I am addicted to the various wallpaper and desktop capture groups.
• Good Gamers Make Great Leaders, Say IBM and Seriosity I've learned more from the 16 months of being a WoW GM than I could even begin to share.
• Should The IPhone Have A Landscape Keyboard Mode? Interesting that this is on a RIM weblog.
• The Business of Software Wiki Wow, this doesn't work in Safari. That's just dumb.
• Firebug for iPhone
• iPhone JavaScript window events

• One Trip Shopping List Manager
• Gas App Nice and simple, right to the point.
• Lumina Game that currently has some performance issues.

Yeah, so I bought this iPhone thing. Generally, I love it, but I won't waste your time with a lot of observations that are available elsewhere. I will say that I moved to it from a Samsung Blackjack, and while both have their advantages and disadvantages, I will be sticking with the iPhone. There are three things that I wish the iPhone had right now that it does not; the ability to tether to my laptop for data, a disk mode, and the ability to use my music as ringtones. This post is about that last item.

So, right now, you are stuck with the default ringtones, welcome to 1999. Every phone that I have had for the last 8 or 9 years allowed me to use other ringtones. That's just dumb from a company that is largely about music these days. Then, I read this article this morning. So they are going to charge us for ringtones via the iTunes store.

Now, I am no lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, or even want to play one. This, however, seems like a real issue to me. I have paid for a lot of music via the iTunes music store. I already paid for it. I want to use it as a ringtone on a device that I also paid for. It seems, to me at least, that this is charging me twice for the same thing. I wonder aloud if I ponied up some money, if this is a lawsuit that we could win for everyone. Let me know your thoughts.

Olde English did this funny iPhone release day video for us. Go check it out, everyone else will be soon.

• I would love a Pownce invite, if anyone has some. I am a good guy, seriously.
• Michael Moore is a self-centered moron.

When I say "Hey" thou shalt not say "Ho".
When I say "Hip" thou shalt not say "Hop".
When I say "he say, she say, we say, make some noise" - kill me.

Download Page for the Single (links to various iTunes Stores)
His MySpace Page
Dan LeSac's Blog
Dan LeSac's MySpace Page

• The Ethics of Web Work
• ElectionVine How long until someone tries to buy Newsvine? They are innovating past the rest of the news market.
• Iconfactory Wallpapers for your iPhone
• Lightroom 1.1 Released

• Five Ways to Speed Up Lightroom
• Apple, Microsoft to push Exchange Direct Push to iPhone? If this is true, a whole bunch of these worthless industry analysts are going to have to eat some crow.

• MiniMail is based on Derek's post. Sweet.
• Atlanta Hawks Redesign I actually like it. Too bad they will suck as long as they have Billy Knight as their GM.
• The first legendary item to drop in Burning Crusade. Where's a legendary bow Blizzard?
• 30 apps that are killing Microsoft I'm not sure that I buy the majority of this today. Maybe someday though.
• 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources
• The Onion: Apple's new iPhone I am not planning on buying an iPhone.
• An Asston of unofficial Leopard videos via the always awesome Uneasysilence

I am posting these, because I am capable of doing so:

• Asshole driven development
• How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites: WEDJE The commish drops some science on widgets.
• iStat Menus Released Awesome in menu bar system monitors. If you don't like that, check out their app and widget version. They even have Vista sidebar thingees.
• Guide On How To Keep A Girl For Gamers Some important information here.
• Costco and the art of Vacuum Packing Screw you Sams Club people. We're all Costco here.

Here’s today’s links (updated as the day goes on.):

• The motorcycle in the next Batman movie looks awesome.
• Sweet DC Comics/BAPE collaboration I would buy the Batman one, but man, $439 for a hoodie. I'm just not that cool.
• LOL Shirts Hah.
• Versions is an SVN client for Mac OS X. It looks much slicker and nicer than anything else I have found so far. Looking forward to trying it out
• Sweet iPhone Cases
• A List of Cool Mac Software A few here that I wasn't familiar with.
• Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew
• Digital Cameras: The Top 10 Things You Need to Know Some great nuggets tucked in this list.
• The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes