Linked List: June 14, 2006

Wednesday, 14 June 2006

Oddica 

Purveyor of very cool t-shirts. Great shirt designs and a great deal for the artists who design them. Looks like they ship in very cool packaging, too.

Script Debugger 4.0.3 

Bug fixes and universal binary support for Late Night Software’s excellent AppleScript editor and debugger.

Fetch 5.1 

Adds universal binary, Dashboard, and Automator support to the venerable file-transfer client.

Hoefler & Frere-Jones: Verlag 

Lovely new typeface in 30 different styles from Hoefler & Frere-Jones:

Provided in a range of weights and widths — including those hard-to-find compressed italics — Verlag brings a welcome eloquence to the can-do sensibility of pre-war Modernism. Three widths, each in five weights with matching italics, and now available in both PostScript and OpenType.

Good looks and smart, too.

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Buy.

Earth Sandwich Completed 

Brothers Jon and Duncan Rawlinson enter the League of Awesomeness.

XML-RPC support for Textpattern 

Now you can use weblog editors like MarsEdit to post to Textpattern sites.

Design Observer Observed 

Speak Up hosts a roundtable discussion on the Design Observer redesign. (Via Khoi Vinh.)

Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks an Expansion of Power 

John Markoff and Saul Hansell report on Google’s massive data center construction project in Oregon: two football-field-size data centers, each with a four-story cooling plant.

Google has found that for search engines, every millisecond longer it takes to give users their results leads to lower satisfaction. So the speed of light ends up being a constraint, and the company wants to put significant processing power close to all of its users.

Bonjour-enabled collaborative movie player for Mac OS X; sort of a do-it-yourself Mystery Science Theater 3000 app.

Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 

New public beta of Adobe’s in-development competitor to Aperture. Expires in January 2007, which sounds as though they’re not that close to shipping yet. Also noteworthy: still Mac-only.