“Monthly musings on the mysteries of branding.” Thanks to Jeremy.

Saul Hansell’s sobering update on the music subscription service: “All this seems the best that is possible for Rhapsody: A lot of time spent negotiating with labels to create products that are still expensive and don’t have the features that can get people excited.”

Nominations for best and worst designs on the Web, with contributions from yours truly.

Best theme I’ve come across yet for reskinning Firefox 3, the interface for which I file under, “nice effort, bad result.”

Nice write-up by John Kricfalusi about this old school comics artist.

Handy utilities for managing your iTunes library.

“It’s a typically brilliant and engaging piece of design, but it sure ain’t modest.” Via Lined and Unlined. Also see my February write-up of “The Sagmeister Phenomenon.”