Linked List: August 20, 2004

Friday, 20 August 2004

Royal Tenenbaum’s World of Futura 

Mark Simonson on director Wes Anderson’s interesting use of type in The Royal Tenenbaums. (Kubrick was enamored of Futura, as well.)

(Via Sara J. Flemming.)

Markdown 1.0 

Markdown is finally out of beta. I’ll post a proper announcement to Daring Fireball soon, including a look at what’s changed since the initial public beta.

Real’s DMCA Hypocrisy 

Mark Twomey points out another bit of RealNetworks hypocrisy. Today, Real is indignant that Apple is threatening them with legal action under the DMCA. But in 1999, Real successfully sued Streambox, under the DMCA, because Streambox had a product that transformed RealMedia streams into other formats.

Unpatched Windows PCs Compromised Within 20 Minutes 

CNet:

According to the researchers, an unpatched Windows PC connected to the Internet will last for only about 20 minutes before it’s compromised by malware, on average. That figure is down from around 40 minutes, the group’s estimate in 2003.

Amazing. 20 minutes isn’t long enough to download the patches to bring your Windows installation up-to-date.

(Via MDJ 2004.08.17.)

Waferbaby Markdown Support 

Daniel Bogan hooked up Michel Fortin’s PHP Markdown to Waferbaby. Sweet.