By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 11, 2006
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
- Yankees Pitcher Cory Lidle Killed in Manhattan Plane Crash ★
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Lidle was killed, along with his flight instructor. The Times just ran this article a month ago about his plane and recently-acquired pilot’s license, along with this note:
A player-pilot is still a sensitive topic for the Yankees, whose captain, Thurman Munson, was killed in the crash of a plane he was flying in 1979. Lidle, acquired from the Philadelphia Phillies on July 30, said his plane was safe.
Tragic.
- Selling Jeffrey Zeldman on Selling ★
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Khoi Vinh’s three-question interview of Jeffrey Zeldman.
- Qualcomm Ends Eudora Development ★
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Mark Anbinder:
Qualcomm announced today that future versions of the venerable email program Eudora, which the company has sold for many years, will be an open-source collaboration with the Mozilla Foundation. Steve Dorner, vice president of technology for Qualcomm’s Eudora group and the software’s original developer, says he’ll lead a group that will “build an open-source mailer with Eudora features on top of Thunderbird.”
Contrary to some preliminary reports, Qualcomm isn’t releasing the existing version of Eudora as open source — they’re abandoning the existing version, and supposedly creating a new Eudora-inspired Thunderbird off-shoot.
We’ll see how that goes. It wasn’t long ago that Qualcomm was talking about a vaporware version of Eudora re-written using Cocoa, which was originally set for release at the end of 2005. A real shame — I’d been silently hoping that the Cocoa rewrite would eventually ship and wouldn’t suck.
- Hans Reiser Arrested on Suspicion of Murder ★
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Reiser is the lead developer of ReiserFS, a leading-edge file system for Linux. His wife has been missing since September 3. Commentary at Slashdot.
- Another Mac Publication Changes Its Name ★
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Crazy Apple Rumors Site:
Earlier today, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber announced that “In order to better reflect its focus on news about deceased film maker Stanley Kubrick and playoff-eliminated baseball team the New York Yankees, I have decided to rename the site Stanley Yankeeball.”
- Woz Shows Up on Metafilter ★
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How can anyone not love Woz?
- The New Yorker Is Splitting Up Their Longer Pieces Into Multiple Pages ★
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Complete agreement with Kottke on this one. The standard practice of major corporate media sites of breaking articles into multiple “pages” is just awful. Waiting for pages to load is the worst part of the web; it always has been, and it still is. I’ve heard all sorts of bullshit explanations and justifications for the practice over the years, but everyone knows the truth: it’s a way to inflate page views. Shit, why not put every paragraph on its own page?
It shows a lack of respect for your readers, and that makes it all the more surprising to see The New Yorker do it.