Monotheca

Monotheca is a niche application for those interested in organizing their video collection but it shows the love that the author had for his trade: polished, HIG compliant, well-laid out.

Link Fest 2005

Michael Zucchi reimplements the IMAP backend in Evolution: I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but it could potentially solve all the existing IMAP performance issues, well, about as well as they can ever be solved..
Joseph Hill on MonoLive: the new mono-live project on Novell Forge. Beyond being a source repository, the Forge has bug and feature trackers, so I hope you'll use those tools to submit your suggestions / publicly lodge all of your complaints.
Edd Dumbill authored a podcasting client: Unfortunately, none of the obvious Linux podcast software really fitted my needs. Either too lo-fi (bashpodder) or just completely scary (iPodder). So I started to write my own. Monopod is a simple Podcast client.
OpenSolaris was released last week. Glynn has a few good introductory links here.
The source is available on Bittorrent as well.
Mark Fiore's's PainMan: his take on the ban of medical marijuana.
Sebastien Pouliot on preventing integer overflows.
Morten Wellinder talks about the limitations in the OASIS OpenDocument Standard.
Rafi Mizrahi on how to do regression tests for image libraries and his implementation for System.Drawing.
The Downing Street Memo: the largest embarrassment of the war on Iraq so far. The democrats met to discuss it (C-SPAN real player stream).
Greg Palast written testimony and a timeline with photos is here.
Robert Fisk asks why Saddam's interrogation was screened in silence: The pictures the BBC BBC admitted, were "mute". What in God's name did this mean? Who emasculated the BBC to such a degree that it should say such a ridiculous thing? Why were they mute? The BBC didn't tell us.
Robert Fisk on torture.
Brazil, Argentina and India stall patent reforms, demanding that any harmonization treaty include provisions on technology transfer, anti-competitive practices and safeguarding of public interest flexibilities. Go Brazil, Argentina and India!