A couple of lovely links, one that tickled me, and one that's a great idea which I wish I'd thought of.
Firstly, an atheist in California is suing over the use of the words In God We Trust which appear on the back of dollar bills of all denominations over here. In many respects, I see his point, as you shouldn't have to share the prevalent religious mindset in order to use the local currency, right?
Next, to Meebo, a link that was sent to me by my friend Francis. In the past, the likes of Trillian and Gaim have done relatively good jobs at aggregating messenger services into a single location. Meebo has developed a web-based offering allowing you to IM without the need to download client software. Using AJAX, you can drag your panes around the web page that acts as the interface.
It's quite light in terms of features, but the concept and the UI are both beautiful. While staying at my parents' house last weekend (before the Meebo revelation), I went through the rigmarole of downloading Yahoo! Messenger in order to IM with someone to ask a single question. The download and install process took way longer than the IM conversation itself. Meebo would have got me around it nicely.
