Sharapova stuns Davenport to advance to her first ever Grand Slam final. Now, one might say that the fellows at the office and I got interested in watching her play for reasons that are best described as “typically male”, but after watching a profile on her and her life, I’ve become something of a fan, and have been pulling her through the entire draw. Her intensity is contagious.

This trailer for The Corporation, a documentary about corporate entities, looks very very interesting. Although, I will say that it looks as if the people who made the film were not completely unbiased. I wonder if that means it isn’t a documentary? (That last bit was sarcastic.)

Joystiq has a link to a clip from the new Fight Club game. It looks very good, and not surprisingly, exceedingly violent. I especially enjoyed the X-Ray effect.

Dave Hyatt continues to add to our perspective about Dashboard with his most recent post, which compares Dashboard to the sidebar panels in Mozilla, liberated from the browser window.

Mr. Gruber has a very well thought out and articulated essay about the whole Dashboard rips off Konfabulator debate. The essay does a fantastic job of putting things in a historical perspective. If you are a relative youngster to the whole Mac OS thing, I highly recommend you read this essay, you will learn something. I’ve been using Macs since 1987, and this essay jogged quite a few things in my memory that I had forgotten.

Dave Hyatt says “widgets are HTML+CSS+JS. They are not some JS-only thing.” The interesting thing in this post, however, is the mention further down the post about Flash and Quicktime.

Atlanta Time Machine (via Kottke) “The Atlanta Time Machine website is dedicated to examining the history of Atlanta, Georgia  by comparing vintage photographs of Atlanta with much more contemporary images shot, more or less, from the same perspective of the original photographer.” This is really neat stuff, these are perspectives that I drive or see on a daily basis. The sheer number of them is incredible.

Apple Previews Mac OS X Server ‘Tiger’: “Weblog Server is fully compatible with Safari RSS in Mac OS X Tiger and makes publishing a weblog as simple as checking a box in Server Admin preferences. Weblog Server is based on the popular open source project ‘Blojsom’” You can find out more about Blojsom here.

Andy has some insightful comments about the design of the RSS Aggregator that Apple built into Safari 2.0. There is also an eWeek story on the subject, which explains that both Atom and RSS will be supported by Safari.

I went to the supermarket tonight, I have a friend visiting from California this weekend, and I wanted to make sure I had Diet Coke, the beverage of choice, in the fridge. Oddly, when I got to the supermarket, they were completely out of Diet Coke. However, they had tons and tons of Coke’s new C2 mid-carb beverage. It made me wonder if they were trying to boost sales of C2 by making it the only choice available to people who would normally drink Diet Coke.

Bacardi buys Grey Goose. I find this stuff fascinating. I also find a Grey Goose and Tonic with lime quite delicious. Since I stopped smoking, I have been drinking less too.

Same drill as every other time.

Steven Berlin Johnson: When Is A Golf Course Unfair? This is the best analysis of the myth of course unfairness at this year’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills that I have read. If you watched the tournament on Sunday, you should definitely read this post. Oh yeah, that’s where I have been, working the U.S. Open for our site, and attempting to recover from that working. It’s another busy week this week too, so updates are bound to be somewhat scarce.

Rafe is enamored with the GMail interface. “It’s worth pointing out that the one gig limit in Gmail is a nice marketing device, but it’s the user interface that sets Gmail apart from other webmail packages.” His post left me wondering if he has tried out Oddpost.

I’m thinking about having a community contest to design a new logo/identity for bump. Despite my best efforts and intentions, I am not a designer, and the sheer amount of effort and practice to make myself better at graphic design is just not something that I can invest in right now. I have a 2nd generation, 20Gb iPod that I am not using anymore, and haven’t sold yet. Do you folks think that it would be enough of a prize to inspire good entries? Is the “iPod as a contest prize” thing being done so much right now that people don’t even care anymore? What would be a better, but reasonable prize for such a contest? Am I better off just hiring qualified folks to do it for me? I mean this is a personal site, and I do already spend my hard earned money for the priviledge of having it.

Introducing Brady – The Macromedia IDE for Flex Looks, based on the screenshots, like it is based on the Dreamweaver codebase. I tried switching to Dreamweaver for my ColdFusion development on my Mac OS X machines, but it just gets in my way. I love the lean fast feeling of a text editor like BBEdit or Homesite. I continue to maintain that Macromedia would be well served to continue to develop Homesite. It’s a shame that, aside from Eclipse and the forthcoming E3, that there isn’t a lean text editor on the Mac OS X platform that supports syntax highlighting for ColdFusion. I looked into creating said syntax coloring for BBEdit, and was turned off by the now ancient method of creating said modules.

More gmail invites. Blah Blah Blah. Ask and ye shall receive, but beware, for ye may be then cursed with the task of giving out gmail invites thyself and a heavy burden it may become on thee.

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Five more invites, one already spoken for, so four to give away. Ask in the comments, make sure to give me your name and an email address. Thanks.

Despite being a lifelong Lakers fan, I enjoyed watching them get beat by a better, healthier Pistons team that played as a team. No bones about it, if they had played the series to 99 games, the Pistons would have won. Lots of commentary on the Web in the usual places today, and in some places one wouldn’t normally expect.(It is possible that Jason is not an objective analyst:-)

As far as I'm concerned, the most insightful post, by far, is Mark Cuban's. For those of you who don't know, Mark owns the Dallas Mavericks, the Dallas NBA franchise. Amusingly, his team is constructed with the almost exact opposite philosophy to the one that the Detroit Pistons management, specifically Joe Dumars, used in building their team concept.