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Linked List: September 30, 2006

Saturday, 30 September 2006

Google Reader Gets New Layout, Still Doesn’t Work With Authenticated Feeds ★

Which means you still can’t use it to read the members-only feeds from Daring Fireball. They don’t even give you a reasonable error message — when you try to subscribe to a feed that requires HTTP authentication, it tells you there’s “No feed available” for that URL.

Scab ★

Wonderful essay by Greg Storey on the Falkner Winery design rip-off — and an interesting thread in the comments, as well.

My strategy for dealing with design rip-offs is simply to out them publicly, and let Google mete out the justice. Within a few days, Googling for “Falkner Winery” will reveal that they copied their site design from Joyent and ripped off artwork and other design elements from Cork’d.

10.4.8 Persistent Cursor Rectangle ★

Speaking of weird problems caused by the new scroll-wheel-zooming feature in 10.4.8 — if you see a black rectangle surrounding your mouse pointer, Daniel Jalkut has the solution.