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Linked List: December 11, 2006

Monday, 11 December 2006

$1,000 Lineform Art Contest 

Freeverse:

Freeverse is proud to announce a contest for the best work of art created with Lineform, the Apple Design Award-winning drawing and illustration application. We’re looking for entries from the wildly creative Mac community, and are offering a grand prize of $1,000, and two runner-up prizes of $200 each!

Deadline is December 14, so if you’re interested, get cracking.

Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo? 

Another design rip-off perpetrated by a deep-pocketed arch-rival: Google’s copy of Yahoo’s page for their customized version of IE7 even includes a screenshot showing the Yahoo toolbar.

NYTimes.com Adds Digg, Facebook, and Newsvine Buttons to Each News Article 

Great score for Newsvine.

NBA Gets Its Balls Back 

USA Today:

Billy Hunter, executive director of the NBA players’ union, said Monday that the league will drop the microfibre ball that was introduced this season and return to the leather ball January 1.

Sanity prevails. Best way to deal with a mistake is to admit it and address it head-on.

Craigslist Meets the Capitalists 

This is just funny:

Jim Buckmaster, the chief executive of Craigslist, caused lots of head-scratching Thursday as he tried to explain to a bunch of Wall Street types why his company is not interested in “monetizing” his ridiculously popular Web operation. Appearing at the UBS global media conference in New York, Mr. Buckmaster took questions from the bemused audience, which apparently could not get its collective mind around the notion that Craigslist exists to help Web users find jobs, cars, apartments and dates — and not so much to make money.

Jackass of the Week: Premiere Magazine Editor-in-Chief Peter Herbst 

Calls 2001: A Space Odyssey one of the 20 most overrated movies of all time. No wonder I unsubscribed from Premiere a few years ago.

(Via Kottke.)

Screencast Codec Showdown 

Peter Hosey’s extensive research into which QuickTime codecs are best suited for screencasts.

Thomas Hawk Buys a Mac 

Thomas Hawk:

A little over two weeks ago I walked into the Apple store in Palo Alto and bought myself a new MacBook Pro. Yes, the new sexy Intel dual core MacBook Pro. And I went home and after not using a Mac for over 15 years, put my Dell PC notebook literally in the bookshelf and have been using this new Mac as my primary computer for the past 2 weeks.

And what do I have to say about the experience after two weeks? My God! This is f[uck]ing amazing! For the past 15 years I’ve pretty much been a diehard Microsoft PC guy. I’ve mocked the religious zealotry of the cult of Macintosh. I’ve derided the senseless brainwashing that Steve Jobs seems so elegant at.

What I take away from stories like this is not “Hey, it’s great to see another PC user switch to the Mac.” What I take away is that he ought to feel like a jerk for having mocked Macs and Mac users for 15 years, because he would have been just as happy if he’d switched earlier.

JPG 7 on Newsstands Now 

I just got my copy in the mail last week, and two thoughts stand out:

  1. It’s amazing to me that what started just two years ago as a cool little side project for Derek Powazek and Heather Champ is now a totally real magazine. “Real” is not quite the right word, because the first six issues of JPG are real, but you know what I mean. The thing is on newsstands now, nationwide.

  2. JPG is really well-designed. There aren’t design credits in the masthead, but I assume that’s just because Powazek designed it and didn’t want to add another slash after “editor/publisher”. But it’s gorgeous.