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Gems from the Web (rather Mac-centric today):

• Security: Download of the Day: iAlertU – Utilizing the built in motion sensor technology, iSight camera and the infrared remote control your MacBook Pro can now be turned into a high tech alarm system.
• Coolest Workspace Contest: Reader workspace bonanza – Includes a workspace crafted from an airplane wing!
• How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently – Nice
• 11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac’s Performance – None of these tips will improve your Mac’s performance like more RAM, a faster hard drive, or a CPU upgrade would. Still, a good reminder.
• Exclusive: iPhone Europe & Google Phone Non-Existent? – The price will be £299 for the 4GB model and £399 for the 8GB model.
• The Technocrat » Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X – Very cool app – unlock your mac automatically when you are near it. Now if only Sony Ericsson could start supporting the Mac!
• ThinkingRock – Thinking Rock is a free software application for collecting and processing your thoughts following the GTD methodology. It is simple and easy to use.
• Quicksilver: Hack Attack: A beginner’s guide to Quicksilver – Quicksilver is bar-none the best productivity application on the market today. Whether we’re talking Mac, Windows, or Linux, freeware or shareware, this Mac-only, freeware application launcher-and-then-some is the best productivity booster.
• Namely – Open Applications Quickly – Namely is possibly the fastest way to open applications. And unlike some other launchers, it doesn?t require any learning! OSX
• Rocketboom – Missed this one first time around, but here Rocketboom explains how they do closed captioning and multiple languages for their daily video.
• Backup: Geek to Live: Complete, free Mac backup – Lifehacker – Great article on how to backup your mac, properly and automatically.
• BackityMac 1.4.7 – Have you ever wanted an easy way to backup all the important files in your home folder? Are you tired of sifting through the Library directory to find the folders you need to backup?
• Chat humor | Eric Cheng?s Journal – Gotta love that new Macbook keyboard. I guess it can take some time to get used to.
• 320GB striped array (RAID 0) in a Macbook Pro – Impressive results in performance increase
• GrandPerspective – Free, open source application GrandPerspective analyzes your hard drive and gives you a graphical representation of where all your space has gone. OSX
• Bio Mapping – Christian Nold – People re-eplore their local area by walking the neighbourhood with the device and on their return a map is created which visualises points of high and low arousal.
• NRA opposes bill to stop gun sales to terror suspects – This leaves me with only one thing to say – WTF?
• 45% of Europeans watching TV on the Internet – French television addicts are the most demanding, with 59% choosing to watch previews and episodes of their favourite shows via the web.
• GenoPal Online – A totally new way of finding colours. Very interesting indeed. You can also download a Mac version.
• Crew12.se / Hyper Island | Eager to get out in the world – It takes a while to understand the purpose of this page, but the design is full of high coolness factors.
• The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie – An april’s fool joke that turned reality. The proper tie for proper geeks.
• The Daily Slurp – Ever-changing collection of great designed web-sites.
• Sparity? – “Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugand” – spam gets weirder, but the english stays excellent
• Design Meltdown § Orange Part 3 – Great site on graphics, especially web related. This link takes you to part 3 of a series on orange. Very inspirational.
• MoveOn.org Civic Action: Save NPR and PBS once and for all – President Bush just proposed drastic cuts to NPR and PBS. We’ve stopped similar cuts in the past, but enough is enough: With the new Congress, we can make sure this never happens again. Sign this petition to Congress.
• I Saved Japan! | Samanathon.com – Photographic proof of how Samathra single-handedly saved Japan from utter distruction.
• Exopolis, Inc. – Impressive portfolio of LA based Exopolis. 2 and 3d animation and more.
• Microsoft Buying Yahoo! Just Rumors? – There has been talk for some time in the web community that they only viable competition for Google would be a Microsoft/Yahoo! combo, well that just may be happening.
• Downloading Pirated Anything Is NOT Illegal – I read every bit of information I could find, including case law. [â?¦] Guess what? I could not find a single line in any act that said that downloading anything was illegal, or even anything that could be construed to mean it. Talking about can of wo
• Apple grilled over iBook G4 logicboard deaths – Denmark officials say they’ve discovered a systemic power flaw with Apple Inc.’s final generation of iBook notebooks that has been causing grief for users, and they’re telling the company it’s time to fess up.
• RatRace – Overview – RatRace has come about as a result of our own need. To put it lightly we ourselves have been pants-wetting funny awful at making estimates and projections. OSX
• AppleInsider | PC World editor quits during dispute over Apple story [updated] – The Editor-in-Chief of PC World, Harry McCracken, quit the magazine abruptly on Wednesday after the company’s new chief executive, Colin Crawford, tried to kill a story about Apple and Steve Jobs.
• Oliver Stone brings his passion to anti-war ad – Stone directed a new television ad that takes direct aim at the Bush administration’s policy in Iraq.
• World has 8 years left to save the climate: UN report – The report also states that the low costs of buying insurance, through the use of technologies currently available, to avoid a climatic catastrophe in the coming decades is less than 0.1 per cent of world gross domestic product (GDP) per annum.