By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 19, 2006
Thursday, 19 October 2006
- The G.O.P.’s Bad Bet ★
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Charles Murray, on the recent Republican-backed ban on Internet gambling here in the U.S.:
Thus society is weakened every time a law is passed that large numbers of reasonable, responsible citizens think is stupid. Such laws invite good citizens to choose knowingly to break the law, confident that they are doing nothing morally wrong.
- Graphing Requests With Tamper Data ★
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Simon Willison points out a very cool but hard-to-find feature in the Tamper Data extension for Firefox.
- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Money Talks, Bullshit Walks ★
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Fake Steve:
You know what I did yesterday? I didn’t say a word. I just walked around the executive suite tacking up copies of our earnings release from the same quarter in 1996.
- David Pogue Reviews the Sony Mylo ★
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David Pogue:
Which young people, exactly, does Sony expect to pay $350 for a wireless gadget that doesn’t have a camera, can’t download e-mail, omits AOL Instant Messenger and can’t play music bought online?
- AllOfMP3 Loses Ability to Process Visa Credit Cards ★
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Visa has pulled the plug on the Russian MP3 bootleg site, which has been selling copyrighted music for prices way, way below U.S. retail. AllOfMP3 then announced plans to switch to an ad-based model, using some unspecified DRM system that would work with some unspecified portable players. Good luck with that.
- CNet Reviews IE 7 ★
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Firefox is faster, has a better UI, and much better support for web standards.