Link: Stevey’s Blog Rants: Settling the OS X focus-follows-mouse debate

Link: Earthships: Where Luxury Goes Beyond Green Living. | WebEcoist

This overview is much better than anything I’ve found on the main Earthship Biotecture site. It’d be cool to live in one of these!

Link: Survey: Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful - CNN.com

As Tim Bray points out, this is “Another good reason not to believe in God.”

Link: The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Habits - A Guided Tour | Zen Habits

Link: Creating a minimalist workspace — from Zen Habits | Unclutterer

Saving for inspiration. I’ve never had a minimalist desk in my life. :)

Link: Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams

Link: Tweet-a-Watt! A safe and simple wireless power monitor

Notice she didn’t say “cheap” in that headline…

Link: Plex Media Center for OS X

Apparently kicks VLC’s ass for playback quality and CPU efficiency…

Link: TUAW Tip: Make iPhone ringtones with GarageBand

This one’s better than Apple’s version of the same thing, because TUAW recognizes that a fade-in and fade-out sounds better.

Link: Gall’s law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked…”