Linked List: March 6, 2006

Monday, 6 March 2006

SpamBack 

Matt Mullenweg reports that 98 percent of TrackBacks filtered through Akismet are spam. I got a ton of flak when I published “Take Your TrackBacks and Dangle” three years ago, but today, I think there are more people who see TrackBack as a hindrance than a help.

Mozilla Corporation Made $72M Last Year From Firefox 

According to Jason Calacanis, they get 80 percent of the ad revenue from queries fired from the integrated Google search box. I’ll bet Apple is making a nice chunk of change from Safari users.

Michael Tsai: Switching From Trac to OmniOutliner Pro 

I too use OmniOutliner for issue-tracking for my own software projects.

BBEdit vs. TextMate 

Francois Joseph de Kermadec:

I am often asked which application, of TextMate and BBEdit is “best”. My heart incontestably goes to BBEdit but, truth is, both are good. Here is why we should stop fighting over it.

Intel Mac Mini Scores Lower Unreal Tournament Framerate Than G4 Mini 

They’re not kidding when they say those integrated graphics cards aren’t meant for gaming.

BBEdit 8.2.5 

Bug fixes galore.

Apple Versus the Analog Monster 

John Siracusa:

The fundamental premise of this rant is a simple one. I will spell it out once again. Analog circuits in consumer electronics should not make audible noise under normal operating conditions. Period, end of story. No negotiation, no qualifications. I find this premise so obvious that it seems absurd to even write it. Either Apple does not agree with this premise, or it is willingly shipping incompetently designed analog circuits. I find both possibilities troubling, but the first is terrifying.

I think the most surprising thing about the fact that much of Apple’s current hardware line-up suffers from noise problems is that Steve Jobs is famously fanatical about this computer noise.

Netflix Freak 2.3 

Updated version of The Little App Factory’s Mac client for Netflix; now a universal binary.

New York Times: Cosby’s Lawyers See No Flattery in an Imitation 

New York Times article on the cease and desists orders Bill Cosby’s lawyers have used in an attempt to shut down mirrors of Justin Roiland’s hilarious “House of Cosbys”. Includes several quotes from Andy Baio, who is — correctly, in my opinion — refusing to comply with Cosby’s demand that he no longer host the episodes on the grounds that satire is protected speech.