Mark Sturdy is soon releasing his book Truth and Beauty on the band Pulp. He talked about 'his book' two years ago, brining up all the research he had done for it and the bits of information he had gathered. I didn't really expect it would happen back then. I was wrong, it seems. Congratulations Mark.
Design according to (Jonathan) Ive, Apple's lead designer. Industrial design is fascinating, probably even more so for more frequently used objects: Having easy access to your computer's RAM slots is certainly not as important as having a well-designed phone, light-switch, faucet, ...
Apple seem to have re-designed their developer site. I still find it to hard to find the Human Interface Guidelines there. They should have a link right on the front page. Perhaps a reflection of the fact that Apple don't care about them a lot these days as long a things look shiny. They also have a feature on TeXShop which I hadn't seen before. Perhaps I should try to re-program the improvements I made for it – and lost – about a year ago.