Linked List: June 9, 2006

Friday, 9 June 2006

Dvorak: ‘I Would Write It in Kind of a Weaselly Way’ ★

Dave Winer:

I was talking with [John C.] Dvorak at the Vloggercon party this evening, and he started telling a story about how he deliberately pisses Mac users off to get flow for his stories, and I said, hold a minute, I want to record this, and shit if he didn’t stop and repeat it for me and my video camera.

(The video is about 20 MB; give it a chance to load. Update: Not surprisingly, the traffic was killing Winer’s server; it’s now available via BitTorrent. It’s also on YouTube, for those of you who don’t want to bother with the torrent.)

I wrote about this three years ago, but it’s weird to hear Dvorak flat-out brag about it.

Coudal Partners: Field-Tested Books 2006 ★

My friends at Coudal Partners have published their annual Field-Tested Books feature — brief reviews of certain books read in certain places, including this one, of David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster, by yours truly. For your additional consumer enjoyment, there’s a limited edition poster for $29, and a nicely-typeset-for-the-screen PDF for just $6. (Poster buyers get the PDF for free.)

Note for web nerds: check out the CSS cleverness that puts a checkmark next to the reviews you’ve already read.

FTP Demystified ★

Basic overview of the FTP and SFTP protocols from a user’s perspective, by Panic’s Steven Frank.

Vienna 2.0 ★

Open source RSS/Atom feed reader for Mac OS X. (Via Daniel Jalkut.)

Ratatouille ★

First trailer for next summer’s Pixar, directed by Brad Bird.