Sweet new Windows features! No other OS can do them!

If some of the “new” features of Windows Vista look a little familiar to you OSX users…

“Live previews of applications!” “Sidebar widgets!”

Search for applications anywhere on your machine!

As some of you may have read, Microsoft is playing nice with the web (for once) and adopting Mozilla’s “Syndicate” image as their RSS button. This is a good step toward further interoperability and generally making things less confusing for those who arent so RSS-savvy, as well as finally getting rid of those ugly-as-sin orange RSS buttons ().

Instead, what we use now is this:

Courtesy of mattbrett.com

However, realizing that it’s still that ugly orange, Matt has been kind enough to create a ton of downloadable versions of the icon in EPS, GIF, AI, PSD formats, for your own custom color coding.

They’re all available at FeedIcons.com

I’ve already switched over, as you can see from the menu bar.

Here’s an idea that needs to happen:

I want a web service that will import my netflix queue and tell me which movies are on cable within the next week, so if there are films that i dont care about the 5.1 or bonus features i can record them on my tivo and clear out my queue.

Someone, make it happen!

Happy Jewmas!

But I saw this headline on IMDB and couldn’t stop laughing.

Actor John Spencer, who won an Emmy award for playing chief of staff Leo McGarry on The West Wing, died Friday of a heart attack; he was 58. Spencer’s publicist, Ron Hoffman, said that Spencer died at a Los Angeles hospital, and no further details were available at press time. Services and funeral arrangements are currently pending. –Prepared by IMDb staff

Seriously, he was one of our finest actors, who seemed to have had a blast playing COS Leo McGarry on The West Wing (which I’d call one of the finest dramas in television history.) these past 7 years.

He will be missed.

If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend you check out Season One and Season Two of The West Wing. They’re only $20 each on Amazon.