By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 29, 2007
Thursday, 29 March 2007
- They Didn’t Study ★
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Hilarious answers to test questions. The calculus one with the hangman is awesome. (Via Khoi Vinh.)
- Front-Page Article in The San Francisco Chronicle on the Kathy Sierra Death Threats Story ★
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Good story by Dan Fost covering the whole unseemly saga.
- New ‘Complete My Album’ Features on iTunes Store ★
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Gives you credit for singles you’ve already bought when you buy the rest of the album.
- CanSecWest Security Conference Offers MacBook Pros to Anyone Who Can Exploit Them ★
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CanSecWest:
We’ve announced that we will be having a contest “PWN to OWN” where two, pimp, loaded up, Apple Macbook Pro’s will be set up on their own AP (with security updates but otherwise default) and attendees will be able to connect to the ethernet or WiFi. The first to exploit it (there are victory conditions, and progressive rules over the three days) gets to go home with it. (Limit one per person, Can’t use the same vuln on both.) If they survive the three days in the “jungle,” they become prizes for best lightning talk and best speaker. Detailed contest rules to follow shortly.
(Thanks to Chris Pepper.)
- Jon Udell on Authenticated RSS Feeds ★
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My only guess about why Google Reader doesn’t support authenticated feeds is that the architecture isn’t designed for non-public content.
- John Dvorak: ‘Apple Should Pull the Plug on the iPhone’ ★
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What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a “reference design” and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures.
It should do that immediately before it’s too late.
Remember Rob Malda’s reaction on Slashdot to the original iPod? “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”
I think we’ve found the equivalent for the iPhone. We’ll be laughing about this one for a long time.
- Windows-Only ‘Tubes’ Claims Mac Compatibility by Running Under Parallels ★
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This is not something to brag about in a press release.
- DjangoKit ★
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Tom Insam:
DjangoKit is a framework that will (eventually) allow me to package just about any Django application as a stand-alone MacOS .app. I’ve been noodling with the concept for a while now, but I was finally motivated to do something after I saw Slingshot and started reading about Apollo and related technologies.
I’m getting the sense that hybrid desktop/web apps are the next big thing. I’m unconvinced, but very much intrigued.
- X Marks the Spot in ‘The Departed’ ★
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Rene Rodriguez on Martin Scorsese’s use of X’s throughout The Departed. Spooky. (Via Kottke.)