JWZ on how to de-lameify your OS X 10.5 dock and menubar

Should you have upgraded to Leopard already

Heritage turkeys are the ancestor to the birds found in most supermarkets these days

They take a good bit longer to reach market weight, so you’ll need to remember to order in April for next Thanksgiving

My man Jay-Z has been a wonderful partner to the UN, and a champion of those in need around the world.

—U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, praising Jay-Z for his work to improve water and sanitation in the developing world. I guess it would’ve been considered uncouth for the secretary general to drop the N-bomb, huh? [via]

McClellan blames Bush for CIA leak deceit

It’s all rats and sinking ships for the next year, I’m afraid

There hasn’t been anything that made me sit back and say, “Golly, I would never have imagined that.” The aspects of recent history that have caused me to do that have been, in every case, manifestations of retrograde human stupidity.

—William Gibson, on the big challenges facing humanity

Flickr launches Places

Clusters geotagged photos by location, looks slick

from how to attend an indie rock concert

Google is taking a wiki-style approach to location editing on maps

You can correct a misplaced address even if you’re not the proprietor of said address. Changes must be approved if they’re more than 200 meters away and it shows a history of updates. Smart.

U.S. hopes to use Pakistani tribes against al Qaeda

Arming a group of, at best, ambivalent, at worst, openly hostile, tribal leaders in the vain hope that they’ll help us kill their own countrymen while we maintain almost zero military presence in one of the most unstable parts of the world. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Amazon launches Kindle, a wireless reading device and electronic book platform

Initial impressions: I like the non-wifi wireless, non-backlit screen and long battery life. I don’t like the high cost and that you can’t seem to sync with your computer.