musikCube Update and the End of The Simpsons

musikCube 0.92.3 was released tonight. It's another incremental update, bug fixes mostly. Here's the changelog, but you really should just go download it.

Tonight's episode of The Simpsons was just horrible. They long ago stopped making excuses for the gratuitous celebrity cameos, and in certain cases, like the trip-to-England episode featuring spot-work by Sir Ian McKellan, J.K. Rowling, and even Tony Blair, it worked. But tonight's show was a 22-minute commercial for Fox's American Idol, strategically aired at the low-point of the show's entire run. It even had what seemed like a six-and-a-half-hour solo by Fantasia Burrino. What the hell? Personally, I think the entire production team just gave up after Fox canceled Futurama, then gave two shows to arch-nemesis Seth McFarlane. Sure, they're still under contract, but that doesn't mean they have to give a shit anymore.

There's an article at Ars Technica this week called A History of the GUI. I'll just say this about it: Forget everything you think you know about Douglas Englebart, man, because you don't know jack shit.