“…roughly seven years in the making and 15 hours long – there is little doubt that this is Burns’ masterpiece.”

“This past week was an important one in the history of business software because it revealed that the monolith has cracked and the future is up for grabs.”

Dear Fans, This journal will be one of my last entries as a San Francisco Giant. Yesterday, I was told by the Giants that they will not be bringing me back for the 2008 season…

Interactive maps of popular destinations

“So what really happened to the music industry, and what will it look like in five or ten years? That’s the question we put to five smart people in our latest Freakonomics Quorum.”

Video interview of the Founder/CEO of Mint, winner of the recent TechCrunch40

“Twitter has a real use for media companies and social-media-savvy brands.”

Competitor to Wesabe and Mint

Competitor to Mint and Wesabe

Good discussion started by Fred Wilson. Make sure to read the comments.

Weird.

Turn your iPhone into a remote for iTunes

Kottke explores the recently opened NY Times archives

A review of the new Whole Foods in Portrero Hill, across the street from where I work.

I like the concept

“The real reason why IT fears web 2.0, as John Martellaro pointed out recently, is that it upsets the historical need for control and power in IT departments.”

Mint has officially launched

GTD guru David Allen will be doing a series of posts on Huffington Post

“On Sept. 19 the company is launching a host of new features that might seem more at home on Facebook or News Corp.’s (NWS) MySpace than on a Web site where users post links to online articles and other media.”

Looks cool

The TechCrunch 40 back-channel on Twitter

“Crowd sourced” electronic products

The guy who paid $752K for Barry Bonds HR ball #756 is taking votes on the fate of the ball. The options are 1) Send it to Cooperstown 2) Brand it with an asterisk then send it to Cooperstown and 3) launch it into space!

“The man who bought Barry Bonds’ record-breaking home-run ball is giving the public a chance to brand it with an asterisk and send it to baseball’s Hall of Fame – or to blast it into outer space.”

“Effective Sept. 19, we are ending TimesSelect. All of our online readers will now be able to read Times columnists, access our archives back to 1987 and enjoy many other TimesSelect features that have been added over the last two years – free.”

“Starting today, presentations — whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor — are listed alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs document list.”