Linked List: June 10, 2006

Saturday, 10 June 2006

The Vintage Mac Museum 

Motohiko Narita’s extensive collection of screenshots of Mac software from the monochrome 9-inch screen era. Fanfuckingtastic. (Via Khoi Vinh.)

Math Jokes in ‘The Simpsons’ 

Including two supposed disproofs of Fermat’s Last Theorem that take advantage of calculator rounding errors.

Design Observer Redesigns and Joins The Deck 

Great redesign of the ever thoughtful Design Observer. I love the way the main content column consumes the entire height of the window. Their new Observed column is a nice nod to Coudal.com’s Fresh Signals. I dig the colors, too.

Hex Color Picker 1.1 

Waffle Software:

Hex Color Picker is a color picker allowing you to get (and edit) the hexadecimal HTML and CSS color code for a color in the standard Mac OS X color panel.

Works like a charm.

Site Rip-Off: Headphono.us 

Total rip-off of Daring Fireball’s design and CSS. (The only change made to the CSS was to remove my name and copyright statement.) My thanks to everyone who’s emailed me about this. The anonymous jerk behind the site released a Dashboard widget for tracking 2006 World Cup soccer matches; not sure how he expected to get away with a rip-off of Daring Fireball while releasing Mac-specific software.

If anyone knows who this guy is, let me know. (And let’s keep it gentlemanly for now.)

Update: Case closed.

Building RMagick on Mac OS X 

Dan Benjamin shows how to install RMagick (Ruby bindings for the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image manipulation libraries) and its dependencies on Mac OS X.

Google GBuy Payments System? 

Forbes reports that Google is soon launching its long-rumored competitor to PayPal. This is good news for everyone other than eBay. I’m pretty happy with PayPal as the back-end payment processor for DF, but I’m uneasy about the fact that PayPal doesn’t have any serious competition. (Via Niall Kennedy.)

Craig Newmark: Keep the Internet Neutral, Fair and Free 

Craig “Craigslist” Newmark has an excellent commentary piece on CNN.com regarding the net neutrality debate. This is a great, easy-to-understand explanation of the situation.

(Thanks to Daniel Lord for the link.)