By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 26, 2007
Friday, 26 January 2007
- Adobe COO Thinks John Warnock Was a Type Designer ★
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Adobe COO Shantanu Narayen, asked by Forbes for his favorite font, said:
“There are some Warnock fonts that are absolutely spectacular that we use within the company. John Warnock, as a founder of the company, did some amazing fonts.”
John Warnock, along with his cofounder at Adobe, Chuck Geschke, invented the PostScript language. He is not a typographer. Warnock Pro, the excellent typeface Narayen is apparently referring to, was designed by Robert Slimbach.
I could point to this, but I won’t.
- Twitterrific 1.1 ★
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A few new features for The Iconfactory’s excellent little Twitter client.
- Google Integrates YouTube Into Google Video ★
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Seems like it’d be foolish not to do this, but, then again, as the first commenter points out, Yahoo still hasn’t integrated Flickr into its photo search.
- My Basement Mac Collection ★
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More like a museum than a hobbyist’s collection. (Thanks to Bryan Bell.)
- Bill Gates to Appear on ‘The Daily Show’ for Vista Launch ★
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He’ll be on this coming Monday’s show, on the eve of Vista’s launch.
- John C. Dvorak Might Be Fucking Nuts ★
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John C. Dvorak explains why he doesn’t like Macs:
I, personally, do not like the Mac — snappy response aside — [because] of the way it feels when saving files. I know this is silly, but I’ve never felt comfortable with it. It was mushy in some weird way that always gave me the creeps. I always felt that if something weird happened on a Mac I would never be able to recover a file. I’ve never felt that way with a PC. I figured that with a PC, I could take the hard disk out and easily put it into another machine and then go exploring the drive without worry.
Is it just me, or is this crazy talk?
This is a minor thing to people who would be fearful of removing a hard disk, and that, to me, would be a typical art director at an ad agency who used a Mac. He’s buying the machine because it looks good and he/she likes the way it feels.
So Mac-using art directors are the ones who make their computer decisions based on irrational feelings — but Dvorak, the technical genius who isn’t fearful of removing a hard disk, he makes his platform decision based on how “mushy in some weird way” it feels when files are written to disk.
- Jackass of the Week: Aaron deBruyn ★
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26-year-old Aaron deBruyn shot his wife’s 79-year-old grandmother with a taser gun after arguing with her regarding his repeated spanking of his infant son. Real family man.
- Fog Creek Copilot 2.0 ★
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Joel Spolsky:
Fog Creek Copilot is a remote tech support service that lets one person control another computer remotely, much like VNC or RDC, with the advantage that it requires zero configuration, works through firewalls, and installs nothing.
The big news for Mac users is that version 2.0 now runs on Mac OS X, and 24-hour day passes cost just $5. (Monthly plans start at $20.)
- Macalope: ‘The Peter Principle’ ★
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So much jackassery, so little time.
- Web 2.Clueless ★
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Josh Williams, responding to some clown who thinks to be a successful “web 2.0” company, you have to charge in micropayments:
Bob says our pricing strategy is “out of this world,” and rips our Gold plan for charging a business $24 a month to send up to 250 invoices. Let’s do some math. Our Silver plan cuts off at 50 invoices. So if you’re on the Gold plan that means you’re typically sending over 50 invoices a month. 50 invoices at $.50 a pop (as Bob suggests) would cost you $25. Then, we only would make 30 cents on the dollar due to the merchant fees, and we’re left with about 8 bucks. Congratulations, you’ve now successfully created a business model where both the buyer and seller are getting screwed. The bank however makes out pretty well.
- Hints of Keynote 4? ★
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Brian Peat goes through the Macworld Expo keynote looking for features in Steve Jobs’s version of Keynote that aren’t in Keynote 3.
- Mobile Phone Use Linked to Brain Tumors ★
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Nic Fleming, reporting for The Telegraph:
A large-scale study found that those who had regularly used mobiles for longer than 10 years were almost 40 per cent more likely to develop nervous system tumours called gliomas near to where they hold their phones.
Better order the Bluetooth headset with that iPhone. Update: Oops, wait, Bluetooth = radio, so that’s no good, either. At least the iPhone headphones work as a wired headset; that’s apparently the way to go.
- No Free Service From Cingular With iPhone ★
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Cingular rep to Gizmodo, regarding Jim Cramer’s speculation that they’d offer 18 months of free service to iPhone buyers:
The report is nonsense. We’ve always said the only way you can get the iPhone is with a Cingular rate plan.
If it sounds too good to be true…
- Comwave Claims ‘iPhone’ Trademark in Canada ★
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Apple filed for the “iPhone” trademark in Canada first, but Comwave has been using it there since 2004 to sell some sort of VOIP service that no one has ever heard of.