• Apple
• Third Party Applications on the iPhone: Steve Jobs wants third party apps on the iPhone (and iPod touch) after all, and promises a software development kit (SDK) by February. [more at Apple Hot News]
• Jobs confirms iTunes Plus price drop across the board: Not a full day after our initial report that Apple planned to drop the price of all its iTunes Plus tracks (as well as add a number of indie labels to the mix), many users started seeing the changes slowly trickle down from iTunes’ servers. [more at ars technica]
• It’s official: Leopard to go on sale October 26: After much speculation, Apple has confirmed that the next version of its Mac OS X operating system, “Leopard,” will hit stores on Friday, October 26, at 6 p.m. [more at CNET]
• Fenty to Order Switch to Meters for District Taxis: D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) said today he will sign a mayoral order mandating that taxis switch from a zone system to time-and-distance meters. [more at Washington Post]
• Immigration Crackdown Unanimously Approved: The Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously early Wednesday morning to deny 14 county services to illegal immigrants, following a 12-hour public hearing that drew 400 speakers and 1,200 demonstrators. Supervisors did not vote until after 2:30 a.m. [more at WJLA]
• Oh, he’s walking the plank in his undies again..: An Australian man, clad only in underwear, fell nine stories while trying to build a makeshift plank bridge into a neighbor’s flat, but lived to tell the tale. [more at Reuters]

And if you got this far down, what exactly does it mean to toss a sheep? The question just came up at the office… seriously!

Ron posted this survey (which he found elsewhere) and for lack of anything better to do, I thought I’d take a crack at it. I find it interesting that all my answers are rather short, save for the answer to question 2. One could argue that I wrote the most on a subject I’m passionate about, but I think that would be overthinking it.

I sometimes wonder if people who tell others to “grow up” are in need of a little maturing themselves. Thoughts?

(And no, the phrase hasn’t been hurled at me recently — I’m just genuinely curious.)

These are my links for 18 Jun:

• Daily Blog Tips - You don?t need to know much about SEO to realize links are the golden road to blog promotion.
• Fluther: Tap the Collective - A new twist on social question and answer sites.
• 25 Web Sites to Watch - The Internet is evolving in new and inventive ways thanks to mashups that pull data from all over the Web and to AJAX-based interfaces that give sites the same degree of interactivity and responsiveness that desktop apps possess.
• The great iPhone hunt of 2007 | CNET News.com - Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently gave free advice to a columnist asking how to get an iPhone when they go on sale: head to an AT&T store, Jobs suggested, rather than Apple’s own retail outlets.
• Mozilla exec calls Apple’s Safari plan ‘duopolistic’ - Mozilla’s chief operating officer, John Lilly, is calling Steve Jobs’ plans for building Safari’s market share “out of date” and “duopolistic.”
• Dell apologizes for remove-this-blog-post-or-else nastygram | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - A blog post at Consumerist.com offering tips on buying from Dell drew a nasty cease-and-desist letter from the company’s attorney and then, in quick succession, a chastened apology from a Dell manager.
• Microwave popcorn warning memo - Unedited memo sent out to City of Seattle employees.
• 15 Best Game Show Hosts - TIME Magazine ranks 15 best game show hosts; Bob Barker comes out on top.