By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 27, 2007
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
- Eddie Griffin Crashes a Ferrari Enzo ★
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I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry:
Eddie Griffin crashed a $1.5 million Ferrari Enzo (only 400 were ever made) while practicing for a charity race to promote his new movie Redline yesterday.
(Thanks to the wife.)
- Apple - Creative Suite 3 ★
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Translation: “Please buy a new Mac Pro.”
- Hacking John McCain ★
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John McCain’s campaign set up a MySpace page using Mike Davidson’s template, including pulling images directly from Davidson’s server. So he changed one of the images.
- Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen on CS3 Pricing ★
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From the AP:
CS3’s prices may seem steep compared to other shrink-wrapped software. But Adobe customers — particularly graphic and video artists with deep-pocketed corporate clients — spend money relatively liberally compared with average software buyers, Chief Executive Bruce Chizen said.
“Our customer is not typically price sensitive,” Chizen said last week. “The cost of the tool isn’t what’s critical — it’s the productivity and what their output can be. They want to pay for value as long as we deliver innovative features that allow them to be more productive and creative.”
Translation: “We think we can charge whatever we want.”
- PyOSA 0.1.0 ★
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Your reaction to this announcement is likely either to be “Huh?” or “Holy shit!”
Announcing the first release of PyOSA, a new OSA language > component for Python. PyOSA allows you to write Python scripts in Script Editor and attach them to OSA-enabled applications such as Mail (Mail Rules), iTunes (Scripts menu) and System Events (Folder Actions).
Mine was “Holy shit!”
- Best Buy Acquires Speakeasy ★
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Speakeasy has a good reputation as a high-end ISP and data services provider for nerds. Best Buy doesn’t exactly have a high-end reputation.
- Laurie McGuinness: Mac / PC Parodies ★
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I’ve seen at least a dozen parodies of Apple’s TV commercials, and these are the first that ever made me laugh. I especially like the first one, “Work”.
- AOL: PowerPoint Paralysis ★
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Valleywag has screenshots from an internal PowerPoint presentation from AOL regarding the naming of their new search feature, “FullView”. Includes such insight as “‘Full’ and ‘View’ are very familiar English words.” This is an astoundingly bad presentation.
(Of course, the name itself, “FullView”, doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. As Joe Clark points out in the Valleywag comments, L-V is not a common combination in English, and is likely to wind up sounding like “FuwView”.)
- LogoMaid Pulls SimpleBits Logo Knock-Off, Apologizes to Dan Cederholm ★
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Never too late to do the right thing.
- Fantastic Gemstones ★
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Amazing photographs by Bill Atkinson, who, as a member of the original Macintosh team at Apple, created QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard. (Via Coudal.)
- Upstage — Samsung Phone for Sprint ★
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Interesting, or at least novel, form factor. It’s got a phone with a tiny screen and camera on one side, and a media player with a bigger screen on the other side. My guess is it’s a piece of junk overall, but at least it doesn’t look like every other phone out there. The typeface on the buttons looks like something out of Knight Rider.