Linked List: June 28, 2006

Wednesday, 28 June 2006

Sub-Pixel Anti-Aliasing Bug Fix for Intel-Based Macs in 10.4.7 ★

Dan Benjamin saves me 5,000 words.

Mark Pilgrim: Essentials, 2006 Edition ★

His list of essential software now that he’s switched to Ubuntu. Other than missing iMovie, Quicksilver, and Growl, he seems pretty happy.

Alastair Houghton: Mac OS X Authentication Dialogs Can Lie ★

Alastair Houghton reports on a security hole in Mac OS X that allows the authentication dialog to lie about which application is requesting administrator privileges. He reported the bug to Apple in November 2003 (rdar://3486235), and has gone public with it only because it’s gone unfixed for so long. (Via Michael Tsai.)

Kubrick’s ‘Day of the Fight’ ★

Stanley Kubrick’s rarely-seen first film, Day of the Fight, a 1951 documentary about the prizefighter Walter Cartier. Love the shot through the legs of the stool at the start of the first round.

(Via The Stranger — finally, a Kubrick link I didn’t filch from Coudal.)

Drosera ★

“Xenon”, posting at the WebKit.org Surfin’ Safari weblog:

I would like to introduce a new addition to the WebKit open source
tools—a JavaScript debugger. Drosera, named after the largest
genera of bug eating plants, lets you attach and debug JavaScript
for any WebKit application—not just Safari.

One of the unique things about Drosera, like the Web Inspector, is that over 90% of it is written in HTML and JavaScript. This is a true testament of what you can do with web technologies today and the rapid development that WebKit allows.

I can’t decide whether this is fantastic or awesome.

Kevin Smith’s Free ‘Clerks 2’ Commentary ★

Kevin Smith has recorded a commentary to his upcoming film Clerks 2 and he’s releasing it as a free download on iTunes. The idea being that if you like the movie, you’ll come back and see it in the theater again with your iPod. Genius.