By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: May 22, 2006
Monday, 22 May 2006
- Winners Take All in Rockonomics ★
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Princeton economist Alan Krueger claims concert ticket prices are going up up up because record sales are going down down down — but it’s led to a situation where the top 1 percent of artists are receiving 56 percent of the total concert revenue.
Professor Krueger says this tendency was spotted by David Bowie, who told the New York Times in 2002 that “music itself is going to become like running water or electricity”.
Bowie has advised his fellow performers: “You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring, because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.”
(Via Kottke.)
- Apple May Yet Release the x86 Darwin Kernel Source Code ★
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Ernest Prabhakar, Apple’s product manager for open source, points out that Apple hasn’t announced anything regarding the source code to the x86 Darwin kernel — just because they haven’t released it yet doesn’t mean they aren’t going to release it.
- MacSaber 1.0 Beta ★
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A more elegant waste of CPU cycles on your sudden-motion-sensor-equipped Mac laptop, from a more civilized time.
- Marriage Proposal at the New 5th Avenue Apple Store ★
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Apple put up a time-lapse webcam in front of their new 5th Avenue Apple Store, and some clever nerd took advantage of it to propose marriage to his girlfriend. Kottke is trying to track the guy down.
- Photos of Steve Jobs at New Apple Store on 5th Avenue ★
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Inspecting the details.
- Delaying the Xnu-x86 Source Release ★
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Drew Thaler speculates on why Apple closed the source to the x86 version of the Darwin kernel.
- Clint Ecker Reviews the MacBook for Ars Technica ★
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Interesting observation on just how fast the new MacBooks are: the low-end model is just about equal, performance-wise, to the original MacBook Pros from a few months ago.
- Amazon’s “One-Click” Patent Reconsidered ★
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The $2500 fee to get the USPTO to re-examine the patent was raised by the readers of this guy’s weblog after he got some bad customer service from Amazon.