Linked List: October 2, 2007

Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Bungie Breaking Off From Microsoft? ★

In response to inquiries, the official line from Microsoft’s PR firm is “There’s been no such announcement. We continue to celebrate the tremendous success of the global phenomenon that is Halo 3.”

‘Shining’ ★

As mentioned on this week’s episode of The Talk Show, the hilarious spoof trailer for Kubrick’s The Shining, cut by Robert Ryang. See also: the actual trailer for The Shining, my favorite trailer of all time.

More on David Foster Wallace’s Introduction for ‘The Best American Essays 2007’ ★

The Amazon Bookstore Blog:

Are Best American Essay introductions eligible for next year’s Best American Essays?

See also: Dwight Garner at the NYT Paper Cuts blog, and Kottke.

Naz Hamid’s Weightshift Redesign ★

Looks fantastic, but a small beef with the anchored-at-the-bottom masthead: you can’t just use Page Down to scroll the page, because you end up missing some of the lines of text that were covered by the fixed masthead.

Amazon Makes You Lie to Log Off ★

The only way to log out of Amazon.com is to click the “If you’re not Your Name, click here” link. (Via Simon Willison.)

Apple Keyboard Media Key Event Handling ★

Quentin Carnicelli on how developers can access events from the new Next, Previous, and Play/Pause keys on Apple keyboards.

Sapiens ★

New application launcher, invoked with a circular mouse gesture.

Jackass of the Week: Dongmei Li ★

The Associated Press:

A New York woman is so angry at Apple Inc. for lopping $200 off the price of the iPhone that she’s filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages.

PairLite: ‘Hosting for Hobbyists and Savvy Webmasters’ ★

Low-priced web hosting from the ultra-reliable Pair.

Nintendo Will Not Meet Holiday Demand for Wii ★

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fil-Aime: “I can’t guarantee that we’re going to meet demand. As a matter of fact, I can tell you on the record we won’t.”

What is wrong with Nintendo?