Themes

I very much like the idea of those Gmail themes which change their appearance depending on the local weather or the time of the day. This idea should definately be applied to the desktop. With Compiz, it shouldn't be that difficult to make effects (or themes) that behave like this.

Tabbing

I have actually always thought that tabs should be handled by the window manager, not by the program itself. Of course, this is one of the fundamental ideas behind Ion. It seems that Google is taking a step into this direction with its Google Chrome browser. A quick mockup of how the mentioned idea might look in Chrome:

Ubuntu theme

The new theme for Ubuntu Interprid is simply awful. It's even worse than the previous one. This mockup should be the way to go.

Qt

Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt (which is great news for KDE users) and Nokia adds Qt to Maemo. These news are not very surprising since Nokia acquired Trolltech last January. Is the long run plan in Maemo to switch completely to Qt? I would imagine that having two toolkits (i.e. Qt and GTK) increases the memory consumption (which is supposedly a bad thing in a mobile device) and also makes it more difficult to get unified look and feel among the applications.

Homer Simpson euro

Quite an impressive work ;)

Knol

I really don't get Knol. It is a site that hosts many articles written in various subjects. The idea is that only the author has the right to modify the article. Granted, other people can rate and comment articles. They can even write their own versions of the article. But still, all articles are based on someone's viewpoint, or even worse, opinion. Does rating and commenting the articles give enough peer reviewing? In my opinion, Wikipedia's approach makes more sense. In Knol, 1+1+1=3, but in Wikipedia, 1+1+1=4.

If I'm missing something, please enlighten me.