By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 27, 2006
Friday, 27 October 2006
- Ratbert ★
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Only funny because it’s true.
- Kottke: Love It or Hate It Movies ★
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Wonder why Kill Bill Vol. 1 is on the list but Vol. 2 isn’t? Also: I’m deeply suspicious of anyone who doesn’t like The Royal Tenenbaums.
- Web Design Is 95 Percent Typography ★
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Yes. And, unfortunately, many so-called web designers spend 95 percent of their time on the other 5 percent.
- Reinventing HTML ★
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Tim Berners-Lee:
The plan is to charter a completely new HTML group. Unlike the previous one, this one will be chartered to do incremental improvements to HTML, as also in parallel xHTML. It will have a different chair and staff contact. It will work on HTML and xHTML together. We have strong support for this group, from many people we have talked to, including browser makers.
It’s not clear to me what the relationship is between this new group and WHAT WG.
- Locomotive ★
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Ryan Raaum’s open source utility for staging Ruby on Rails apps on Mac OS X.
- David Chartier Reviews the New .Mac Webmail ★
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The Quick Reply feature is interesting.
- No iPod, Soap! ★
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Guy orders a refurbished iPod, and when he opens the box, there’s a bar of soap instead of the iPod. Better than the piece of meat some woman in Hawaii found in her iPod package last year, I suppose.
- Hero of the Week: Michael J. Fox ★
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I’m reminded of Hemingway’s line, “Courage is grace under pressure.”
- MacFixIt: Why MacBook Pros Are Limited to 3 GB RAM ★
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MacFixIt:
The net result is that at least 3 GB of RAM should be fully accessible, while when 4 GB of RAM installed, ~700 MB of of the RAM is overlapping critical system functions, making it non-addressable by the system.
- ‘Fireball Mail’ ★
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Song of the day, by Roy Acuff. (Via reader Ian Lessing.)
- Acer: Vista Home Basic Is a Lemon ★
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Even if you disregard the lowest tier of Windows Vista — the totally lame “Starter” version that only runs three apps at a time — the next highest tier sucks too. This isn’t good for Windows users, and it isn’t good for PC makers, either. Microsoft must think it’s good for themselves, but I seriously doubt that — they might make money from people upgrading from the crummy lower tiers, but at the expense of the company’s brand.