Linked List: July 3, 2006

Canaries in the Mac OS X and Red Hat Coal Mines? 

Tim O’Reilly on the recent “switching to Ubuntu” meme. One thing seems certain: it’s not “Linux” in general that is gaining steam — it’s Ubuntu in particular.

U.S. Senator Ted Stevens Explains How the Internet Works 

Hard to tell how much to attribute to his being stupid, and how much to his being a nut-job.

OpenType Version of Sabon Next 

Jean François Porchez reports that an OpenType version of Sabon Next — his 2002 revival of Jan Tschichold’s masterpiece Sabon — should be coming out sometime later this year.