By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 9, 2007
Friday, 9 March 2007
- MacFUSE News ★
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Scott Knaster on the latest MacFUSE news, including an Objective-C library for all you square-bracket junkies and this article on MacDevCenter by Knaster.
- Worst. Flight. Ever. ★
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WCCO, Minneapolis:
An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.
- Google Calculator Service ★
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Christopher Biagini created a system-wide Services menu item wrapping Google’s calculator feature. Select some text containing some math to solve, invoke, and the text is replaced by the result. Sounds a little silly to go out over the web to compute math, when you’ve got a nice fast processor right there on your Mac, but the magic is in Google natural language parsing. And it doesn’t just do math, it does unit conversion, too — pass in “2kg + 2lbs” and you’ll get “2.90718474 kilograms”.
- Oddica: Flip a Bird, by Anders K. Iden ★
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If you don’t like this shirt, there’s something wrong with you.
- Palm Responds to the iPhone ★
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John Markoff reporting in The New York Times:
Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple’s new iPhone.
The designer, Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, began work three weeks ago at Palm on a line of new products, a company spokeswoman said, but she declined to comment further on the project.
I say: PDA guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in. Joking aside, why would Palm wait until now to start a project like this? Shouldn’t they have done this three or four years ago?
- The Merlin Show: The Quicksilver Comma Trick ★
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Merlin Mann with a screencast of yet another bit of Quicksilver cleverness.