By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 24, 2007
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
- A List Apart 2007 Web Design Survey ★
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A List Apart:
Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?
It’s time we learned the answers to these and other questions about web design. And nobody is better qualified than the readers of A List Apart to provide the answers.
- xPad 1.2.5 ★
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Free update to Garrett Murray’s now-free notepad app.
- Roger Ebert: ‘I Still Have My Brain and My Typing Fingers’ ★
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Roger Ebert:
What happened was, cancer of the salivary gland spread to my right lower jaw. A segment of the mandible was removed. Two operations to replace the missing segment were unsuccessful, both leading to unanticipated bleeding.
A tracheostomy was necessary so, for the time being, I cannot speak. I make do with written notes and a lot of hand waving and eye-rolling. The doctors now plan an approach that does not involve the risk of unplanned bleeding. If all goes well, my speech will be restored.
So when I turn up in Urbana, I will be wearing a gauze bandage around my neck, and my mouth will be seen to droop. So it goes.
I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what?
I have been very sick, am getting better and this is how it looks. I still have my brain and my typing fingers.
He looks like a hero to me.
- Jackass of the Week: Gartner Analyst Ken Dulaney ★
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Nancy Gohring talks to Gartner Analyst Ken Dulaney about the iPhone:
It also comes with a touchscreen and no buttons, making it difficult for users to dial while driving, he noted.
How about not playing with the buttons on your phone while operating a machine that can kill people?
- Statement From Fred Anderson’s Attorney Blames Jobs for Options Backdating ★
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With respect to today’s announced settlement by the SEC of its complaint against him, Fred is pleased to put this matter behind him.
Looks like it’s all on Nancy Heinen now.
Update: It’s possible I misinterpreted this. There’s a paragraph in the statement from Anderson’s attorney casting blame on Steve Jobs. Valleywag reads it as a sign that Anderson has “flipped”. I just read it as a “fuck you” to Jobs.
- Ten Questions for MacBook Hacker Dino Dai Zovi ★
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Ryan Naraine has a good interview with Dino Dai Zovi, winner of last week’s MacBook Pro exploit contest at CanSecWest:
Q: Apple has been criticized in the past for not responding appropriately to third-party findings. What has been your experience working with them?
A: On my site, I list several vulnerabilities I’ve found and reported to Apple and I’ve found them to be very responsive and upfront about verifying things and giving credit. Some things are fixed quicker than others and maybe you can say they take too long on some things but when there are interdependencies on components being fixed, it can be a month of two before you see a patch.
- SEC Charges Heinen, Settles With Anderson ★
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Ben Ames, reporting for IDG:
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged former Apple general counsel Nancy Heinen of fraudulently backdating stock options, the agency said Tuesday. …
Former CFO Fred Anderson faced a similar charge but agreed to a settlement for $3.5 million in penalties.
- Dumb and Dumber ★
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Matthew Bookspan (a) screws around with Cocktail, a utility that exposes expert-level system features; (b) notices the Unix /usr/ folder, which contains a ton of essential OS components, and which is normally invisible for users who aren’t using the terminal or screwing around with things they don’t understand; and then:
Knowing that I already have a Users folder and the multiple Library folder(s), it seemed reasonable to delete it.
This, of course, rendered his entire system inoperative. The funny part is that he wrote an article blaming the whole thing on Apple, on the grounds that the Mac is supposed to be “intuitive”.
- Ethan Marcotte Joins Airbag ★
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Greg Storey:
So now we are three and our kung-fu is unbelievably strong. And yet despite this growth I have a feeling we’re going to need more ninjas real soon.
Storey, Irelan, and Marcotte makes for a very bad-ass team. Insofar as web nerds can be bad-asses.
- Periscope 1.0 ★
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New webcam software from Freeverse, with features like motion detection and built-in integration with Flickr and .Mac.
- DEFCON ★
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New game from Ambrosia:
DEFCON is a stunning, online, multiplayer strategy simulation based around the theme of global thermonuclearwar. The game, inspired by the 1983 cult-classic WarGames, superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion surrounding the Cold War era.