By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 19, 2007
Monday, 19 February 2007
- Translation From Pundit-Speak to English of Selected Portions of John Gruber’s “Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music,’” Intended in All Good Humour ★
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Outstanding.
- The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids ★
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Intriguing piece by Po Bronson in New York magazine on the counterintuitive effects of effusively praising children for being smart:
In a subsequent round, none of the fifth-graders had a choice. The test was difficult, designed for kids two years ahead of their grade level. Predictably, everyone failed. But again, the two groups of children, divided at random at the study’s start, responded differently. Those praised for their effort on the first test assumed they simply hadn’t focused hard enough on this test. “They got very involved, willing to try every solution to the puzzles,” Dweck recalled. “Many of them remarked, unprovoked, ‘This is my favorite test.’ ” Not so for those praised for their smarts. They assumed their failure was evidence that they weren’t really smart at all. “Just watching them, you could see the strain. They were sweating and miserable.”
- Satellite Radio’s XM, Sirius to Merge ★
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Good news for me if it goes through: I’ve got XM in my car, but prefer the programming on Sirius.
- What ToDo 1.0.2 ★
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New $29 to-do task management / “GTD” app for Mac OS X by Devin Coughlin. Fairly obvious to figure out, but there’s no documentation other than this brief FAQ on the web site.
(Note to Mac developers: If the one and only item in your Help menu is a YourAppName Help command, and the only thing that command does is show an alert that says “Help isn’t available for YourAppName”, you should just get rid of the entire Help menu. Not having a Help menu at all at least makes it clear there isn’t any help; making it look like there is help but then telling me there isn’t only after I ask for it is irritating.)
- Code Igniter — PHP Web Application Framework ★
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Open source object-oriented PHP web app framework from the makers of pMachine. (Via Steven Frank.)
- DRM: The State of Disrepair ★
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Engadget’s overview of the state of DRM.
- Brent Simmons: ‘Gallery of Noodling’ ★
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Nice look at some of the UI ideas Brent Simmons experimented with in the early stages of developing NetNewsWire 3.0. I think the problem with some of these ideas isn’t that they were bad ideas, but that they didn’t feel NetNewsWire-y. It’s hard to take the UI in new directions when you’ve got a ton of existing users.
- The Airport Extreme, Version n, Dissected ★
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Nice review and take-apart, with photos. The CPU is a Marvell chip.
- Free Version of WSJ Story on Apple-Cingular Deal ★
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Free version of Saturday’s Wall Street Journal story; definitely worth a read if you haven’t seen it yet. (Thanks to DF reader Jo Morgan.)