The “long hiatus as I’m preparing for my trip to Amanda’s” edition. Now with proper excerpts.

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  Kill Bill icons

  Via fscklog’s MacOrama: InterfaceLIFT presents Kill Bill icons for Mac OS X. amon will love this one.
  Update: Indeed, he does.
  

  weeeeeeee
  omg
  that rocks
  harhar
  awww cute.

• Alurio 0.7.5

  Still in closed beta, the Alurio project (of which yours truly is a founding member) just released version 0.7.5 of the Mac OS X client after over four months of development. Not mainly a feature release, this replaces the protocol code with the cross-platform AlurioCore library, making future enhancements far easier to implement. Aiming for a first public beta later this year.

• Weather Widgetness

  I think Jason Kottke has lost it: “Exclusive: interview with Mr. Sun about the OS X Weather Dashboard widget”

• Gandi for sale

  Daniel Glazman (Mozilla Composer, now Nvu) reports the French registrar Gandi appears to be for sale. Needless to say, as I have three domains registered with them, and they haven’t even bothered to contact me about upcoming changes, I’m rather upset about this, especially seeing as I’m going to be on a trip fairly soon.

• AntiSpyware updated

  Via Dennis T Cheung: Microsoft recently updated their aptly-named “AntiSpyware” (acquired from Giant) to its “second beta refresh” (mere mortals would call it a “Beta 3″). Aside from extending the expiration date, the changes appear to be as simple as “we fixed bugs”:
  

  [We]’ve made other enhancements to the detection and removal capabilities, including improved Winsock LSP removal capabilities and support for long descriptions of categorized software.

  (While a Release Notes link appears on the page, it actually only refers to two known issues, and hasn’t been updated since the first beta.) Sarcasm aside, I updated and am satisfied.

• MSN looking for paid bloggers

  Via Weblog Tools Collection: MSN is recruiting paid bloggers for various lifestyle topics. I’m unsure what to think about this.