By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: May 21, 2007
Monday, 21 May 2007
- Hello, Residuals ★
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John August:
When the Apple iPhone commercial began airing, my first thought was that I wanted one. My second thought: How much will I get in residuals for the one-second clip from the first Charlie’s Angels?
- iTrip Pocket ★
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Griffin’s new teensy FM transmitter for iPods.
- R.I.P. FreeHand ★
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Andy Finnell’s eulogy for FreeHand:
The somewhat odd thing was that the team knew FreeHand MX was going to be their last release. I remember a certain FreeHand engineer’s response to the question “why are you trying to cram so many features into this release?” as being “Because they’re not going to let us do another.”
(Via Michael Tsai.)
- SymbolicLinker ★
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Freeware contextual menu plugin by Nick Zitzmann that lets you create symbolic links (Unix-style aliases) from the Finder.
- Drobo ★
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Interesting new self-configuring multi-disk storage device.
- Summize ★
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Product review aggregator with a very clever sparkline-like system for summarizing the reviews. The graph for the Wii is almost unbelievably green. (Via Kottke.)
- Night Drive ★
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Beautiful 90-second commercial for Volkswagen, more like a short film than an advertisement. (Via Coudal.)
Update: Thanks to reader David Magda, here’s a link to a higher-quality QuickTime version of the ad, complete with credits.
- EMI Accepts $4.7 Billion Bid From Private Equity Group ★
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Not a done deal yet, though:
The song isn’t necessarily over, however: EMI’s shares rose Monday to 271 pence, above the 265 pence per share that Terra Firma has offered. That suggests investors hope another bidder will step up or that the takeover price will be raised.
- Sim Daltonism ★
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Another color blindness simulator for Mac OS X, this one by Michel Fortin (author of the excellent PHP Markdown).
- Conan O’Brien Visits Intel Headquarters ★
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Conan O’Brien, touring Intel’s massive gray cubicle farm:
“That’s good. It makes people feel that they’re all basically the same. There is no individuality, there’s no hope, no sense that life has possibilities.”
- Color Oracle 1.1 ★
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Freeware utility (with versions available for Windows and Linux, too) that allows you to simulate in real time what people with common forms of color blindness will see. (Via Cameron Moll.)