Linked List: November 15, 2007

Thursday, 15 November 2007

‘No Country for Old Men’ 

Roger Ebert:

“No Country for Old Men” is as good a film as the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have ever made, and they made “Fargo.” It involves elements of the thriller and the chase but is essentially a character study, an examination of how its people meet and deal with a man so bad, cruel and unfeeling that there is simply no comprehending him.

Saw it this afternoon and it’s just indescribably good. Can’t shake the feeling that it’s one of the best movies I’ll ever see.

(I would love if someone could explain to me exactly what happened, though, in the scene toward the end where Tommy Lee Jones goes into the motel room.)

Scrubbing the iPhone Scrubber 

Christopher Fahey:

I thought it was a pretty bold design decision when Apple discarded the iPod’s signature feature, the scroll wheel, in the iPhone and iPod touch. But the new scrubber bar is almost useless, especially for long tracks like podcasts where it’s impossible to move the playhead any less than a few minutes per hop.

So I thought I’d just fix it, or at least show a little idea of how Apple might fix it.

Mac OS X 10.5.1 

Bunch of bug fixes for Leopard.

iPod Touch Software 1.1.2 Adds Calendar Functions 

iPod Touch users can now add and edit calendar events.

A Proposal for Improving Spaces in Leopard 

Pretty clever idea for fixing Spaces for those of us frustrated by the current implementation.

Paul Murphy, Jackass 

ZDNet “blogger” Paul Murphy has decided to compare Linux to Mac OS X Server, and he starts with:

Please note that I have not had a chance to see and use the new MacOS [sic] X “Leopard” server release. Comments specific to Leopard Server here are, therefore, based on third party reports.

Please note that I have not bothered to read the rest of your “review”. My calling you a jackass, therefore, is based solely on the fact that you’ve published a comparison of software you admittedly haven’t even seen.

Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Safari 3 Problems 

A slew of Macintouch readers are reporting problems with Safari 3 after updating to 10.4.11. A bunch of them report the problems go away after removing third-party input manager hacks. My guess is that third-party input manager hacks are the cause of nearly all these problems, and it’s just that some of these people don’t know or don’t remember that they have them installed. With regard to input manager hacks, this applies.