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Linked List: November 10, 2006

Friday, 10 November 2006

That was quick: Apple has already released the developer note for the just-released Core 2 Duo MacBooks.

ESA Threatens Kotaku Over Link to Parody T-Shirt ★

Man, who would’ve thought that a bunch of prudish game censors wouldn’t have a sense of humor? (Via Andy Baio.)

Subtraction: Training Keynote Thinkers ★

The Keynote lovefest continues. Khoi Vinh:

It rescues this concept of visual storytelling from PowerPoint’s tainted hands, and implements it within an environment that, almost shockingly, allows high-fidelity typographic and visual control over the elements of a story. In stark contrast to Microsoft’s product, Apple’s Keynote goes to enormous lengths to ensure that the visual part of a slideshow’s visual narratives are attractive and maintain an integrity of form that flatters the ideas it conveys.

JPG Magazine Now Taking Subscriptions ★

JPG Magazine — 8020 Publishing’s excellent photography mag, founded by Derek Powazek and Heather Powazek Champ — started taking subscriptions earlier this week. A one-year (six-issue) subscription is normally $25, a great deal. But use the coupon code “DARING” and you’ll get $5 off, just for being a Daring Fireball reader.

Maybe I’m just a softie for excellent photography and independent publishing, but I think this is pretty cool.

PackRat ★

$25 Mac client for Backpack — lets you read and edit Backpack pages while offline.

MFSLives ★

Holy nostalgia, Batman:

MFSLives is a sample VFS plug-in that implements read-only access to the Macintosh File System (MFS) volume format. This volume format debuted on the original Macintosh in 1984, and was supplanted by HFS (the predecessor to HFS Plus) with the introduction of the Macintosh Plus in 1986. MFS support was dropped from traditional Mac OS in Mac OS 8.1, and it has never been supported on Mac OS X.

(Via Daniel Jalkut via AIM.)

Bill Bumgarner on Text Editor Wars ★

Brilliant and succinct:

As a result, any user who spends any significant amount of time with any one text editor — I’m talking years, here — will build up a set of usage patterns that employed rapidly and repeatedly throughout an editing session. Often this is called “muscle memory”, but it is really more that your brain builds up a library of “mental macros” that are applied almost subconsciously as you work with the editor.

Because of this, switching text editors is incredibly disruptive to one’s workflow and results in some awesome “religious wars”. Why? Because it is just too damned difficult to actually quantify why one editor is so much better than another.

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to say this for months. Perfect.

For Start-Ups, Web Success on the Cheap ★

New York Times article about web start-ups building out on the cheap, without venture capital, including Meebo and Reddit.

Jim Allchin Suggests Vista Won’t Need Antivirus ★

I hope he’s right. The Windows anti-virus industry grew out of necessity, but it has evolved into something that resembles a protection racket.

Vista’s new Address Space Layout Randomization feature sounds like a swell idea.