Coverage of the Microsoft Refund Day event, by an on-the-spot reporter.

By Jef Raskin. Article stressing that GUIs are not human-compatible. As long as we hang on to interfaces as we now know them, computers will remain inherently frustrating, upsetting, stressful. [Wired 1.06]

The founder of MP3.com, Michael Robertson, has a solution for the lack of desktop applications for the Linux OS: Make Windows software run on Linux, by using parts of Wine, software letting Windows programs run on Unix. [Wired News]

Former MP3.com CEO has a new challenge: wresting control of OS market from Microsoft. His new firm, Lindows.com, has something no OS has done well yet. For a fee, users download LindowsOS, which runs Microsoft or Linux programs on PCs. [Wired News]

Details on the Secure Audio Path (SAP) technology, which copy-protects music.

Licensing Unix technology from SCO shows where intellectual property battle lines are being drawn across the industry, according to analysts. [osOpinion]

Teenager Ellen Feiss, the "is-she-stoned?" star of one of Apple's new "Switch" ads, is quickly becoming a Web celebrity but not necessarily for reasons that would please the advertiser. [Wired News]

Some iPod users are swapping jacks with strangers and finding new musical tastes. Should Apple add wireless broadcast and Rendezvous to the iPod so we can all tune in?

When Jay Chiat announced that he was going to take away his employees' cubicles and desks, equip them all with portable phones and PowerBooks, and turn them into wandering advertising nomads, the story captured the imagination of deskbound drones ever...

Article from Wired describing the allure of the Macintosh.