I know it was only a couple of days ago that I was cursing Tiger, but I’m a fickle guy so bear with me as I do an about-face and rant for a while on how great Tiger is.
More specifically, Quartz Composer. This thing had me giggling hysterically all Friday afternoon, as I point-and-click-and-dragged my way through insanely fun graphics programming to create something I reckon is just absurdly cool. Interface Builder was good – this is better.
And the best thing? You can use compositions in lots of different places, for example as a screensaver, or as Paul suggested last night, you could create a CruiseControl build status screen (it would need to be a 30″ plasma TV and use the bump-mapped gaussian blurry thingummy, of course). If you haven’t tried it, give it a whirl right now. If you’re not giggling inside of five minutes, well, maybe you’re just not mentally unbalanced 
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