I was wondering why the new Mail in Leopard has RSS reader while Safari has it since 2005 when I first saw it. Why duplicate the function at different places? Besides, Mail seems to be an odd place to read about the revealing of US intelligence budget to be $43.5bn in 2007, or the torrential rains that lashed east Cuba, forcing evacuations as Tropical Storm Noel heads for the Bahamas.

Shortly after I found an excellent use for it: a RSS reader for personal blogs, rather than news feeds. Shortly after that, I've conjectured that Mail is on its way of becoming iBlog. And then shortly after that, this confirmed my suspicion:

What kind of RSS feeds you put in your inbox? hmm...

Briefly on Leopard

Amiable: Quicklook, Unified Aqua, Stacks, Time Machine, Spotlight
Disagreeable: Unified Aqua, Stacks, Folder Icons, Menubar, Miscellaneous Bugs
Very Much Disagreeable: Dock, Folders in Dock

Here's an interesting article on how psionic monkeys made into one of my favourite game:

Finishing a mo-cap session two hours early, Levine was bullied by Jon Chey into just doing something to justify the time they’d paid for. “So I said  [to the motion-capture actor]: ‘Do monkey motions’,” Levine says. “We had no monkeys in the game, but we did it anyway.” These assets had to find a home, and Levine hit on the idea of lab-experimented apes gaining sentience, and being justifiably annoyed about their treatment at the hands of Man.

“All those story elements we had to back-solve. I find I tend to write best in those situations, when I have a constraint set already,” Levine remembers. “I had these psychic monkeys… so I had to work out how and why, in a way which wasn’t ridiculous and hopefully kinda scary. When my back’s to a wall, I tend to work better.” Not that everyone saw the appeal of psychic monkeys from the outset: “Everyone else was: ‘Dude, you’re ****ing insane. We’re not having monkeys in the game!’”

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