Linked List: August 16, 2007

Thursday, 16 August 2007

I’ve been waiting for someone to call me on this. Feel free to chalk it up to ego-centricism if you’d like, but I see it more like a distributed, filtered form of feedback. No, I don’t have comments, but if you write something smart about something I wrote, there’s a good chance I’ll link to it.

EA Backtracking on Claims of Simultaneous Mac Game Releases 

Remember when Electronic Arts announced at WWDC that they were going to release games for the Mac simultaneously with the PC versions? Scratch that:

The Mac OS X versions of two brand-new games, Madden NFL 08 and Tiger Woods 08, have been pushed back from their announced August releases to September or October, an EA representative told AppleInsider. The company, however, launched Madden NFL 08 for virtually every other platform on Tuesday.

(Via TUAW.)

iPhone + AT&T = Dead Trees and Giant Fees 

How do you rack up a $600 iPhone bill from AT&T during just 48 hours in Canada, even if you’re being careful not to place unnecessary calls or use the Internet? Forget to turn off the MobileMail auto-checking.

Meebo for Mobiles 

Meebo, the web-based multi-network IM client, now has a mobile-optimized interface, specifically targetting the iPhone. Works great in my quick testing, given that it’s only a web app. (E.g. you get signed off from AIM if you leave MobileSafari or even switch to a different browser tab.)

(Via Dan Moren.)

TidBITS: Safe Sleep Revisited 

More from Joe Kissel on Safe Sleep, this time with an emphasis on the security ramifications.

Motherfucker — Mike Lee’s New Weblog 

World’s toughest programmer (as seen here) has a thoughtful new weblog.

The Onion: ‘Fucking Yankees, Reports Nation’ 

The Onion:

“Fucking Yankees,” said Marshfield, MA resident and longtime Red Sox fan Lawrence Broberg, echoing the sentiments of thousands of men and woman across the nation. “Every year. Every goddamn year.”

The Cleaners 

“They’re taking out the Trash and cleaning out the /tmp.”

Numbers and the Next Big Thing 

Paul Kim is disappointed that Numbers isn’t a multidimensional spreadsheet:

One subtle difference between the 2D and multidimensional models is that in the latter, the data model is expected to be dense. What this means [is that] you don’t really have unused cells; all cells are intended to have meaning in your model. It’s not a freeform grid but a packed model of data. For people used to sticking all sorts of random non-computational stuff into spreadsheets, this can be hard to adjust to. Basically, people are using spreadsheets not so much as computational tables but as a big piece of graph paper.

Indeed, sounds interesting. But I think Numbers’s canvas paradigm is going to prove far more popular than this would have.

Keyboard Maestro on Sale Today for $10 

Half off the already low price of $20 for one of my favorite utilities.