Linked List: June 23, 2007

Saturday, 23 June 2007

Potion Store ★: Andy Kim:

Potion Store is an open source Ruby on Rails application that powers the Potion Factory Store. The goal is to help new Mac OS X developers get up and running fast without having to sign up with services such as Kagi or Esellerate. The only thing you need to bring is your own license key generator and a PayPal or Google Checkout merchant account.
The Onion: Apple’s New iPhone ★: From The Onion’s list of most-anticipated iPhone features:

Comes with an iPhone hat, so people know you own an iPhone during the brief periods you’re not using it.
‘Dark Side of the Moon’ as Indicator of Audio Format Adoption ★: Bill Bumgarner:

So, I watched with quite a bit of amusement to see Dark Side of the Moon quickly take and hold the #1 (now #2) position in iTunes Plus. A 350% increase in sales was reached in the week after the launch of iTunes Plus. Thus, iTunes is following the same pattern as other audio oriented media; DSotM dominates sales as soon as a high quality recording is available in that format.
Roger Ebert on the AFI Top 100 American Films List ★: Roger Ebert:

New films become old films so fast. “Raging Bull” came out 27 years ago. It’s older than “Casablanca” (No. 3) was when I became a film critic. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, more than 50 percent of moviegoers are under 27. They are going to find movies on this list that were made before their grandparents were born — and, if judging by the kids I saw Buster Keaton’s “The General” (No. 18) with, they might love them.
New York Times Magazine Piece on Coudal Partners Swap Meat ★: Good publicity for a very cool project. Includes a mention of Kevin Cornell’s excellent sketchbook.
Casablanca ★: OK, yes, when I called it “boring” I was overstating the case to make a point. Casablanca is a fine film and deserving of its classic stature. But the point stands: It’s clearly not even close to the third-best American movie ever made. Somewhere in the top 100? Maybe. Top 10? No way. It’s not even the third-best film of the 1940’s — speaking of which, Notorious doesn’t even make the list at all?
Matt Mullenweg on WordPress Security ★: Matt Mullenweg responds to Wincent Colaiuta regarding the security-related bugs in recent WordPress releases:

The SQL problem in 2.2 requires both registration to be enabled (off by default) and the blog to be upgraded to 2.2. It is a serious problem but I’ve heard of fewer than 5 exploits from the flaw. Even if you assume there are 100 blogs for every one we heard about, that’s still an incredibly small percentage of the millions of WordPresses out there, especially considering, as Wincent points out, the problem has been in the public for a while now.