By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: September 20, 2006
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
- Weird QuarkXPress Performance Regressions After Going Universal ★
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QuarkXPress 7.01 (Universal) is significantly slower than version 7.0 (PowerPC only) when running on PowerPC Macs. And even on Intel Macs, 7.01 is slower than InDesign CS2 running through Rosetta. Quark blames Xcode and GCC, but something’s way out of whack here.
- Understanding HTML, XML, and XHTML ★
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Safari developer Maciej Stachowiak:
In fact, the vast majority of supposedly XHTML documents on the internet are served as text/html. Which means they are not XHTML at all, but actually invalid HTML that’s getting by on the error handling of HTML parsers. All those “Valid XHTML 1.0!” links on the web are really saying “Invalid HTML 4.01!”.
- A Fundamental Way Newspaper Sites Need to Change ★
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Terrific essay by Adrian Holovaty on how newspapers can remain important:
See the theme here? A lot of the information that newspaper organizations collect is relentlessly structured. It just takes somebody to realize the structure (the easy part), and it just takes somebody to start storing it in a structured format (the hard part).
- Sam Brown’s PowerBook G4 ★
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Lovely remembrance for recently deceased Titanium PowerBook G4:
at least three or four of the times that my powerbook has been declared dead the expert making the declaration was an Apple Genius and the Apple store. each time they would declare it dead, then offer to sell me a nice new computer.
i would decline and then buy a new battery or a new power supply or whatever i thought was the problem. and when i would get it home it would work again. the apple geniuses did not believe in my powerbook, but i did.
- A Better Nike + iPod Armband ★
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A recommendation for Belkin’s Sports Sleeve for iPod Nano.
- Mira 1.2 ★
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Mira lets you use your Apple Remote to control any application; it also supports third-party IR receivers for use on Macs that don’t have one built-in. $16 for the software, or $32 with a bundled USB IR receiver.
- Screens Around Town: Moo.com Flickr MiniCards ★
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37signals’s Matt Linderman on the cleverness of the Moo.com user experience.
- HP Said to Have Studied Infiltrating Newsrooms ★
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Damon Darlin and Kurt Eichenwald, reporting for The New York Times:
The studies, referred to in a Feb. 2 draft report for a briefing of senior management, are said to have included the possibility of placing investigators acting as clerical employees or cleaning crews in the San Francisco offices of CNET and The Wall Street Journal.
- More on the Economics of iPod Pricing ★
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I really liked this analysis, even though I don’t think he’s making quite the same I argument I am. Sometimes I think I should have gone into economics.
- Lies, Damn Lies, and … ★
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Interesting post from Kevin Drum on publication bias in scholarly journals:
If two researchers do a study, and one finds a significant result (tall people earn more money than short people) while the other finds nothing, seeing both studies will make you skeptical of the first paper’s result. But if the only paper you see is the first one, you’ll probably think there’s something to it.
- Amazing X-Ray Glasses From Sprint ★
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Joel Spolsky’s hilarious, scathing review of Sprint’s LG Fusic music-playing phone.
- tools.microformatic.com ★
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Terrific microformat service-based tools by Drew McLellan.
- Buggy iTunes Pricing for Movies ★
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Dan Moren, writing at MacUser:
In what appears to be a flub by Apple, it seems that the price of movies on iTunes can vary, depending on what listing you look at.
- Yahoo Stock Drops on 3Q Forecast Warning ★
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Two things worth noting: (a) that when Yahoo runs AP stories about itself, there’s no exclamation mark after their own name; and (b) this quote:
But the prospect of a slowdown in online advertising nevertheless rattled Wall Street, which has been operating under the assumption that Internet companies would fare relatively well even in a sluggish economic environment because of the Web’s rapid overall growth.
“The Internet, and Yahoo in particular, was supposed to be a safe haven, so this is a little bit of a ‘Whoops!’ that tends to make people very nervous,” said American Technology Research analyst Rob Sanderson.
Ah, yes, Internet companies — why would anyone expect volatility in those stocks?
- Fulfillment by Amazon ★
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Amazon:
You send your new and used products to us, and we’ll store them. As orders are placed, we’ll pick, pack and ship them to your customers from our network of fulfillment centers.
Uh, wow. (Via Dave Winer.)