By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 17, 2007
Monday, 17 December 2007
- No Chance ★
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In light of today’s aforelinked piece that the iPhone, six months after debuting, is already outselling all Windows Mobile phones combined, let’s enjoy some holiday schadenfreude with this gem from Steve Ballmer back in April:
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
- Reinvented Blog: ‘So That’s Why It Was Called Pinprick’ ★
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Steve Harris, whose experiences with MacZot prompted my “Pinprick” piece a year ago, has a follow up regarding the long-term results of participating in a super-cheap bundle:
The answer to the ultimate question is 2.669270834. That is the percentage of MacZot users that have upgraded to Together in the month since its release. To put it another way, that’s 41 sales (at $14.95 each) out of the 1,536 total.
There’s a reason why you never hear about MacZot anymore.
- Custom Quality/File Size Filters for PDF Exports ★
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Great tip by Jerry Stratton.
- The Macalope: ‘With Disappointments Like These, Who Needs Successes?’ ★
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Regarding PC World’s selection of the iPhone as one of the 15 biggest “tech disappointments” of 2007:
If that’s a tech disappointment, the Macalope hopes 2008 brings Apple a slew of similar disappointments. It’ll be a banner year.
I’d say Apple shareholders and iPhone owners feel similarly.
- Mac OS X Security Update 2007-009 ★
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The usual assortment of security-related bug fixes, for Mac OS X 10.5.1 and 10.4.11.
- Screenplay for ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ ★
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Fox Searchlight has PDF downloads for their films from this year, including The Darjeeling Limited, by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Jason Schwartzman. (Via Nima Yousefi.)
- Oddica Holiday Sale ★
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Great t-shirts on sale for the holidays — buy three or more and get them for just $13 each.
- The B-List: The Future of Web Standards ★
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Thoughtful essay from James Bennett regarding progress and web standards.
- Philly TV News Skank Alycia Lane Arrested for Hitting NYC Cop ★
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Despite the fact the Post’s sources quote her as saying “I don’t care that you’re a cop - you dyke bitch!” before hitting the officer in the face, Lane’s lawyer claims she was not aware they were being questioned by police officers, which, if you think about it, is funny, as it implies that it’s A-OK to hit regular people in the face during an argument, just not cops.
Regardless, glad to see she’s got the holiday spirit.
- Corzine Signs Law Abolishing Death Penalty in New Jersey ★
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I’m proud to live next door:
Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law a measure repealing New Jersey’s death penalty on Monday, making the state the first in a generation to abolish capital punishment.
Mr. Corzine also issued an order commuting the sentences of the eight men on New Jersey’ death row to life in prison with no possibility of parole, ensuring that they will stay behind bars for the rest of their lives.
- The W3C Cannot Save Us ★
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Interesting essay by Alex Russell, arguing that standards advocacy is holding back technical progress in web browser development. I think he makes a good point: standards are great for defining and refining technology that has already been accepted in the real world, but the standardizing process is so time-consuming and requires so much consensus that it’s not reasonable to expect groundbreaking new technology to stem from it.
In short, better to go ahead and use the
<canvas>tag now and tell IE users to switch to a better browser than to sit around waiting until 2015 for Microsoft to implement it in a crummy way that won’t “just work” anyway. - iPhone Already Outselling All Windows Mobile Phones Combined? ★
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If these numbers from Canalys are to be believed, in Q3 2007 the iPhone outsold all Windows Mobile phones combined in North America. (Once again, I’m at a loss to figure out why Symbian phones sell so poorly in North America and so remarkably well everywhere else in the world.)
- MacUpdate Software Bundle ★
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Twelve Mac apps with a regular combined retail value of over $600, yours for just $50. Not a bad deal. (Includes a “preview” release of Things, the slick-looking upcoming to-do manager.)
- QuickBooks Auto-Update Overwrites Entire Desktop Folder ★
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Total clusterfuck for QuickBooks users who trust its built-in update checker.