Human sense of beautiful varies greatly. This concept got proven once again when I found a web site containing galleries of bird splays. Some people actually enjoy collecting these: they got an online excibition, made up an anathomy of a bird splat, and ugh, even wrote a book about it... Some other people from the same camp make money by selling these bird splats to other collectors. How weird. I guess next time I'll have to do a night ride, I'll go around in hopes to catch a bird splat on my windshield. Only inconvenient thing is that I'd have to put some clear plastic on the windshield or i'll have hard time taking the splat off without damaging it.

Same site features cats that paint and teaches you an art of dancing with cat pets. Fun, I guess.

On to programming topics, I've been working on editing label names and colors for Labels X. Unfortunately, Apple has provided a way to get label names and colors; however, they did not included SetLabel call in Mac OS X (it's there, in fact, but all it does is returns paramErr ;). For that reason, Labels X will inherit the standard label names and colors, but will store them in its own database. For you, as an end-user, this probably will not change anything. For developers, we will be releasing some code to manipulate finder labels on files and access our own label colors/names database, if somebody will want to be compatible.

The wrong icon coloring bug in icon/column view and contextual menus keeps haunting me, and I wish there were something like CopyIconRef in the system. Ohwell. We'll get around it somehow, I guess; if worse comes to worse, this is not a show-stopper, so maybe Labels X 1.0 will color some icons incorrectly (but as soon as I figure out how to fix it, a fix will be done).

brian () did an icon for Labels X yesterday; surprisingly, I like it (I don't usually like anything on the first sight):