IndieHIG

The purpose of the IndieHIG is not to create new guidelines at all--it's sole purpose it to take the things that Apple's been doing and provide a consistent way for third parties to do it too. See those gear buttons everywhere? Because there's no guideline concerning its use nor any code to make one, devs who want to have to reinvent the wheel, and thus, no two gear buttons look or have the same. All the IndieHIG's doing is extrapolating based on trends Apple's initiated

Isotropy means uniform distribution in all directions, so it's pretty much the opposite of what you are implying. Maybe you should have read the wikipedia link :)

This will not work. For guidelines to get to a consistency there has to be someone in charge, able to put the boot down and say "now we do THIS, because THIS is how good it gets with what we can do today".

Sorry to be pessimistic, but in design there are too many different voices and opinions that want to be final.

I have tried the wiki approach on a few projects before, but it all came down to first getting a consensus off the site to later update the wiki when something had been decided.

I'm bummed there were no girls taking chem at your school.

Sounds and looks great, especially from my Wii browser

This is cool. Its just another push to kick apple back in line. Unfortunately, this problem will probably be resolved come Leopard.