The Iconfactory has launched StockIcons, designed to let developers buy sets of slick, royalty-free icons - for Win XP as well as OS X. (IF actually did the OS icons for Win XP, as I mentioned a while back.)

There are photos of a surprisingly ugly pyramid-shaped G4 case mod floating around, as pointed out by Slashdot. I guess modification for its own sake is all well and good, but why bother making something less attractive than the stock case?

A “newcomer weblog” over at Gotham Gazette claims to have rounded up the best NYC-centric blogs and sites - inevitably including both Gawker and Gothamist, while overlooking pretty much every local site I actually read. Awesome!

I’m told the Sex Pistols (or what’s left of them) are playing Jersey in August. I find that confusing, and vaguely alarming. And speaking of confusing and vaguely alarming: there’s going to be another Indiana Jones movie?

And finally, how could I not point out that the Times considers the book business the spinster aunt of the entertainment industry? (Not that it isn’t. Who doesn’t love a spinster aunt? They make the best cookies.)