By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 15, 2007
Thursday, 15 February 2007
- Microsoft Hires Michael Gartenberg as New Evangelist ★
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This comment of Gartenberg’s regarding Vista strikes me as very insightful: “It’s the only product on the market that has to appeal to the CIOs of Fortune 500 companies and my mother all at the same time.”
- Five Thoughts on the Nintendo Wii ★
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Steven Johnson:
Part of the beauty of Wii Tennis is what they left out. It’s absolutely crucial to the game that you don’t control the players’ movements, that they just chase the balls on their own. If you’d added player-controlled movement, the learning curve would have been much more steep.
- Dave Winer: ‘Microsoft Used to Be Smarter’ ★
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Interesting comparison of old Microsoft to new Microsoft:
Used to be when Microsoft wanted to take a market from a successful competitor, they started by seducing their users with something comfortable, a product that worked just like the competitor’s, and was better in some major way.
- TextExpander vs. the ⌘⌥D Shortcut for Hiding the Dock ★
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If you use TextExpander (or the old freeware Textpander), the ⌘⌥D shortcut for toggling Dock hiding doesn’t work. SmileOnMyMac blames a bug in Mac OS X.
- Jens Alfke on Writing Mac Apps With Ruby and Python ★
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From the comments on Daniel Jalkut’s aforelinked “C Is the New Assembly”:
One problem I suspect will bite people using scripting-language bridges is the lack of type checking. Yes, I’ve read all the propaganda about “duck typing” and how the lack of type checking makes you more Agile. For small quickie bits of code, I tend to agree. However, in a full app, type errors will bite you in the ass. A lot.
- QuickTime Player, Full-Screen Controls, and Flash ★
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If you use full-screen playback for a QuickTime movie with embedded Flash content, you won’t get the HUD controls. Good to know.
- Lionsgate Movies Now on iTunes ★
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Apple PR:
iTunes customers will be able to purchase blockbuster Lionsgate films like Terminator 2, LA Story, Basic Instinct, The Blair Witch Project and Dirty Dancing and more than 150 titles coming to iTunes this month. The iTunes Store has become the world’s most popular online movie store, with a catalog of over 400 titles.
That’s great, now they’re only 69,600 titles behind NetFlix.
- Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream ★
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New flavor from Ben & Jerry’s:
It’s vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone pieces and caramel.
Announcing the new flavor Wednesday, Ben & Jerry’s called it: “The sweet taste of liberty in your mouth.”