By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 23, 2007
Friday, 23 March 2007
- Rafe Colburn: Markdown Evangelism ★
-
This made my day.
- AnandTech Dissects an Apple TV ★
-
Satisfying their curiosity so you don’t have to.
- Excerpts From Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ ★
-
Some good excerpts from one of my very favorite books.
- AppleScript to Post Current iTunes Track to Twitter ★
-
More iTunes AppleScript goodness from Doug Adams.
- Apple TV Requires Neither High Def Nor Widescreen ★
-
Interesting scoop from Paul Kafasis: contrary to Apple’s stated requirements and many of the initial product reviews, Apple TV in fact works with TVs that are neither widescreen nor high definition, so long as they have component inputs.
Component input uses red, blue, and green cables for video; red and white for audio. Most regular (non-widescreen, non-HD) TVs sold in the past two or three years support this.
- Jackass of the Week: Andy Patrizio ★
-
Outstanding job by Mat Lu at TUAW — he’s saved me a lot of typing. The gist of it is that Andy Patrizio wrote a widely-linked-to article for InternetNews.com claiming that Symantec’s latest Internet Security Threat Report proclaimed Windows is the most secure OS. Symantec’s report claims no such thing.
- Joyent Slingshot ★
-
Soon-to-be-released framework for running Rails web apps locally on Macs and PCs, with data synching to the hosted web app mothership. If it works as advertised, it’s the web equivalent of alchemy.
- A Hugh Influence ★
-
SXSWi event director Hugh Forrest responds to Khoi Vinh regarding the conference’s programming.
- McDonald’s Wants ‘McJob’ Removed From Dictionaries ★
-
McDonald’s is complaining about the OED’s definition of McJob — “An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of the service sector” — on the grounds that it’s unflattering. The problem for McDonald’s, though, is that it’s true. How is that not the definition of a job working at a McDonald’s?
(Thanks to DF reader Nelson Lamoureux.)
- News Corp. and NBC Announce Partnership Intended to Rival YouTube ★
-
Lots of press about this deal, but it’s way out in vaporware land. It doesn’t even have a name yet.