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UPDATE:  Mac Minute reports that these are no longer available on Target's site.  I went there this evening and found the only “mini“ you can buy is the iPod mini dock.  Looks like someone got wise on that $60 off coupon.

Intersting article from The Unofficial Apple Weblog.  I'm less interested in the Mac mini and more interseted in the distribution.  To my knowledge, this is the first mass-market retailer we've seen (beyond Apple's own retail stores and other Authorized Apple Dealers) who are carring Apple computers.  If that's a case, we're seeing a shift in Apple's distribution model once again.  I wonder if this might not achieve the Apple's ultimate goal of getting more minis out there but create more confusion and sore feelings with Apple's existing dealers like CompUSA, Fry's and others.  Check out the comments as well - a checkout coupon worth $60 off.  Meaning you could theoretically get this at Target.com cheaper than Apple.com.

http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000397028486/

Macminute is reporting that the smallest computer that has made a big splash, the Mac mini, is now available through Target.com. This only solidifies my opinion that the Mac mini belongs in the consumer electronic than in the computer section. Don’t get me wrong, that isn’t a bad thing in fact I think that it is a very smart move on Apple’s part.

Target.com is offering both the 40 gig model and the 80 gig model for their list prices, but only the stock configurations are available.

Check out the comment on this post.  Lots of great pointers to royalty free, free as in "beer" and stock icons for use on web sites and in applications.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Flex-MX?m=506

Gadgetopia has a good discussion (now old, but with good links) on finding good (and cheap) icons for Web apps....

I'm so sick of comment spam I want to puke. 

Even with my CAPTCHA code, I've consistently gotten 5-10 spam comments a day in the last week.  Are they using the MetaBlogAPI to send the comments programatically and thereby circumventing the CAPTCHA?  That's my best guess at this point...

Perhaps the SQL triggers that Chrissy LeMaire wrote might do the trick and I can dump the CAPTCHAs alltogether. 

You see, this is one of the biggest problems, IMO, with choosing .Text as a blogging engine.  It's great that it runs on .NET and it's very easy to implement and use.  It's a total pain in the rear-end that there's not a great deal of community support for it and no “ecosystem” of add-in components.  Take WordPress, as an alternate example.  Kudos to Matt and the team for putting together an excellent solution.  There's an entire infrastructure built up to support developers, skinners, and add-in creators.  The Plugins site alone lists 5-6 comment/spam related plugins that you can drop right in.  I don't see this changing in Community Server or CS:Blogs or whatever it's going to be called, either.  To that end, I'm loading up WordPress in a virtual machine right now...stay tuned.