By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: November 17, 2006
Friday, 17 November 2006
- Xtorrent Public Beta 2 ★
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New beta of David Watanabe’s elegant (and free, while in beta) BitTorrent client.
- Jason Calacanis Quits AOL ★
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Weblogs Inc. founder quits AOL after they fired his boss and “mentor” Jonathan Miller.
- Paramount Sues to Stop Loading of DVDs Onto iPods ★
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EFF:
According to the suit, Load ‘N Go sells both DVDs and iPods and loads the former onto the latter for customers who purchase both. The company then sends the iPod and the original DVDs to the customer. So the customer has purchased every DVD, and Load ‘N Go just saves them the trouble of ripping the DVD. The movie studios’ suit claims that this is illegal, because ripping a DVD (i.e., decrypting it and making a copy) is illegal under the DMCA. The suit also claims that this constitutes copyright infringement.
This is just sick, and everyone who isn’t a dickhead entertainment industry suit knows it.
(Thanks to Jesper.)
- Fake Steve: The Lesson of the PS3 ★
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Fake Steve on the lesson of the PS3:
Is simply this: If you make something cool, price does not matter.
- Jason O’Grady: ‘I Buy Things I Don’t Want’ ★
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Jason O’Grady, regarding recent iPhone rumors (boldface emphasis his):
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably been inundated with speculation and rumor about Apple’s iPhone. Am I the only one that doesn’t want one?
And then three paragraphs down in the same piece:
Will I buy one? Probably, but not for use as my primary phone.
WTF?
- BuzzFeed Launches ★
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Nice write-up by Kottke about a new site called BuzzFeed, which aims to find interesting new trends. I love the design of the site — every element and every word on the page serves a purpose. The design really directs your attention in the right way.
- Retrospect vs. Sparse Image Files ★
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If you turn on Retrospect’s “Don’t back up FileVault sparseimages” option, it will ignore all sparse disk image files on your system. What a horrible bug. Wolf Rentzsch wrote about this back in June.
- Read Different: ‘Get a Mac’ Ads in Japan ★
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Excellent linguistic and cultural translation of the new Japanese “Get a Mac” ads.