By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 1, 2007
Thursday, 1 March 2007
- The Boring Store (Definitely Not a Secret Agent Supply Store) ★
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Someone please give me a reason to take a trip to Chicago.
(Via Kottke.)
- A Review of a Book That Should Be Read Much More Widely Than It Will Be ★
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The Third Bit:
The book Why Aren’t More Women in Science?, is a collection of 15 articles by leading researchers in the field. It was put together in the wake of Lawrence Summers’ controversial musings in 2005 about why there are so many fewer women in high-profile positions in science than in law, medicine, and other professions. It is emphatically not a one-sided rant, any more than Summers’ original speech was. Instead, it gives experts on all sides of the debate an opportunity to present their evidence and make their case. In doing so, it provides fascinating insight into how difficult the “slippery sciences” are, and how easy it is to let your beliefs shape your understanding of facts.
- Hidden Details From the iPhone Keynote ★
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Clever detective work, parsing extra info about the iPhone from the details of the Macworld Keynote address. (Via Khoi Vinh.)
- Living for Those Screams ★
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Mike Davidson on swfIR:
I can hear screams coming from the ivory towers where the validatorians and standardistas live. I like those screams. I live for those screams. I will sleep well tonight with thoughts of prettier imagery on the web.
- Coding Horror: ‘Choosing Anti-Anti-Virus Software’ ★
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Jeff Atwood on the performance effects of running Windows anti-virus software (in most cases, they’re quite significant). Interesting that he recommends turning off four of the built-in security features of Vista; I can’t think of anything similar that I’d recommend turning off in a default Mac OS X installation.
- Happy Cog Redesigns AIGA ★
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Zeldman:
If you develop green technologies, you dream of selling your idea to Al Gore. If you run a design agency, you fantasize about winning AIGA as a client. Originally founded as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA sets the agenda for design as a profession, an art, and a political and cultural phenomenon. In the world of design, at least in the U.S., there is nothing higher.
More from Jason Santa Maria and Dan Cederholm.
- Picnik ★
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Adam Engst:
For an impressive example of what can be done in a Web application these days, check out Picnik, an online photo site that provides - almost exactly - the same set of editing features as Apple’s iPhoto, and some of iPhoto’s sharing capabilities.
- Update to Robert Mohns’s AirPort Extreme 802.11n Review at MacInTouch ★
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Updated info on the lower-than-expected performance Mohns saw in his testing. The bottleneck is NAT:
In our testing, AirPort Extreme provides outstanding 802.11n performance through its LAN ports. However, when using Internet Sharing (also known as NAT, or Network Address Translation, mode), throughput via the WAN uplink port drops considerably. We observed a maximum speed of 34 Mbit/sec. in this configuration. While this is faster than a typical cable modem or DSL line, it’s considerably slower than a switched 100 Mbit Fast Ethernet connection.
- Arthur Schlesinger, Historian of Power, Dies at 89 ★
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The New York Times obituary for Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who died yesterday after a heart attack in Manhattan.
- Audio Webcast of Tim Cook’s Presentation at Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium ★
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Hear Apple COO Tim Cook talk about the iPhone (and its price) and more.
- O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures ★
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New venture fund from Tim O’Reilly. Am I the only one who thinks it sounds like a nickname for Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7: The New Tek Jansen Adventure?
- Multitouch Everywhere! ★
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Steven Berlin Johnson speculates that perhaps one of the secret features in Leopard touted by Steve Jobs back at WWDC is iPhone-style Multitouch support.
Possible, I suppose. It makes sense that Apple would have kept this secret at last year’s WWDC — without shipping display hardware that supports it, it wouldn’t have done developers much good to know about it in advance.
But I think a touch-based UI only makes sense for a tablet-like computer (like the iPhone). I’m not sure it would be generally useful with traditional displays or MacBooks. The angles seem wrong to me.
- Sprout ★
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Delightful entry by Jeff Nusz in the Casual Gameplay Competition. Clever puzzles and nice artwork. (Via Andy Baio.)