@AndrewVos: My eyes hurt well before the horizontal lines. It started around "green" - ouch.

Utterly surreal. PS. Who doesn't lock their taskbar??

I live in NYC - I already know the answer to this question.

@Johnny Pneumatic:

Wow - these five are all at the bottom of my list of ten or so launchers I've used on Windows or Mac. Oh well. Plus, this really should have been split by platform. Then at least some Mac program other than the over-rated Quicksilver would have been able to make an appearance. I guess the readers' bias against…

Isn't it strange that "use small icons" simply changes the size of one icon? At least, on a Mac - don't know about the others. I'm a fan of big icons - they make easier targets - but Apple seems to be going in the direction of little tiny chiclet buttons & Firefox has followed suit.

@smithereensblog:

Nothing. Anything I *need* Windows for, I just do at work. There are some games and stuff that I miss from before I Switched a couple years ago, but nothing compelling enough to make me boot up Windows.

> i've never heard anyone declare quicksilver dead, apart from you...

VOTE: LaunchBar (Mac)

This reminds me I have to get back into Pandora again. The "problem" is I find so much good music it's overwhelming sometimes. Anyway, unlike Last FM, the songs are classified by musical scholars and professionals rather than by users, so I find the matches between similar-sounding songs a lot more accurate.

Why isn't there an option to set my time zone when I sign up?

My biggest mistake is cooking things too long. I have learned that some things continue cooking themselves even after you remove them from the heat.

@Parker,

balls,

@Parker,

> I don't feel any smarter

OK, slightly more functional than dropping the Applications folder onto the Dock, but... where are the icons?

VOTE: TextMate (Mac) - nothin' else like it

> Social networking is a solution