By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 6, 2006
Friday, 6 October 2006
- Great Comment Thread on Shipley’s ‘Frozen in Carbonite’ ★
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Even if you’ve already read the article, the comments on Wil Shipley’s ‘Frozen in Carbonite’ post are well-worth a thorough perusal. Yes, yes, there’s a bit of nastiness from the zealots on both sides of the Carbon-Cocoa developer divide, but don’t let that distract you from the good stuff.
Shipley himself writes, regarding his intended point:
What I was trying to say was, “The authors of Carbon aren’t idiots, they are just patching a framework that is using older metaphors, and the results are always going to be unacceptable to me because I want newer metaphors.”
I wasn’t trying to say, “Carbon is old, Cocoa is new, thus Cocoa is better,” but instead the more subtle, “Carbon is based on an older metaphor of programming and is inherently flawed in my view because of it.”
- TechCrunch: Completely Unsubstantiated Google/YouTube Rumor ★
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Rumor is Google may buy YouTube for $1.6 billion; CNN and the Wall Street Journal have the story, too.
- 2lmc Spool on Paths vs. FSRefs ★
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I didn’t mention Shipley’s pro-paths-as-file-references aside, but I agree: that’s just dumb. I had no idea TextMate’s file references are path-based. Crazy.
- A Tale of 3 Color Controls ★
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James Duncan Davidson is on fire with his Aperture / Lightroom / Photoshop UI coverage.
- Brief Interview With Perian Lead Developer Augie Fackler ★
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He recommends NicePlayer as a movie player, which I hadn’t looked at in a while.
- Kieren McCarthy, Still a Jackass ★
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MacUser’s Dan Moren on Kieren McCarthy’s latest on Apple for Techworld.
- iLifeControls 1.0 ★
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Open source framework by Sean Patrick O’Brien:
The main reason I decided to take a set of controls that mimic the iLife interface and combine them into a framework is to provide developers with a one-stop shop for their Apple-style interface needs.
Screenshot here.(Via Michael Tsai.)
- Keychain Framework ★
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Open source “Objective-C Foundation-based framework for accessing Keychain and Security services”, by Wade Tregaskis. (Via Daniel Jalkut, in a comment on Wil Shipley’s Carbon-Cocoa essay.)
- Macworld: Secrets: Get More From Mail ★
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Tips and tricks for Apple Mail users from Joe Kissell, including how to perform boolean searches in Mail’s search field.
- Unlikely Terrorists on No-Fly List ★
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60 Minutes’s Steve Kroft has obtained a copy of the U.S. government’s “no-fly” list of suspected terrorists. It contains the names of tens of thousands of utterly non-terroristic citizens, along with Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, neither of whom, I suspect, are likely to be flying on commercial U.S. flights any time soon, let alone under their own names.
Gary Smith, John Williams and Robert Johnson are some of those names. Kroft talked to 12 people with the name Robert Johnson, all of whom are detained almost every time they fly. The detentions can include strip searches and long delays in their travels.
“Well, Robert Johnson will never get off the list,” says Donna Bucella, who oversaw the creation of the list and has headed up the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center since 2003. She regrets the trouble they experience, but chalks it up to the price of security in the post-9/11 world. “They’re going to be inconvenienced every time … because they do have the name of a person who’s a known or suspected terrorist,” says Bucella.
(Via Kevin Drum.)
- Engadget on Zune’s Wireless Features ★
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Engadget:
Sorry Microsoft, we think you have it backward. The killer app of having wireless in a portable media device isn’t sharing DRMed files — it’s downloading music from a near infinitely large library no matter where you’re at.
- R. Lee Ermey Says Kubrick Told Him Cruise and Kidman Ruined ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ ★
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I’d heard before that Kubrick and Ermey had remained in contact after Full Metal Jacket, but describing Kubrick as “kind of a shy little timid guy” doesn’t exactly jibe. But, then again, we’re talking about R. Lee Ermey — perhaps by his standards Kubrick really did qualify as timid.
(Via Nat Irons, via AIM.)