By John Gruber
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Linked List: January 14, 2008
Monday, 14 January 2008
- The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade ★
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One more from today’s Times (can you tell what I read on the plane?): Nancy Kalish argues that high schools and middle schools should start later in the morning to accommodate teenagers’ natural sleep cycle. Great idea. But she also argues that the school day should be expanded from 6.5 to 8 hours, quoting some jackass who says “Trying to cram everything our 21st-century students need into a 19th-century six-and-a-half-hour day just isn’t working.” The last thing kids need is to be cooped up in school for more hours each day.
- BusySync 2.0 Will Sync iCal with Google Calendar ★
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In beta soon, scheduled to ship next month. BusySync makes iCal work the way it ought to work right out of the box. (Order now and save $5; the upgrade to 2.0 will be free for all existing BusySync users.)
- Google Sees Surge in iPhone Traffic ★
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Miguel Helft in The New York Times:
On Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surged, surpassing incoming traffic from any other type of mobile device, according to internal Google data made available to The New York Times.
- Requiem for a Rendering Engine ★
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Agreed:
Having laid out these feats of strength, it is time to remind everyone of the most shocking fact about iCab: all of this was done by one person, Alexander Clauss.
In spite of all the obstacles the modern web threw at browser developers, the fact that one man could single-handedly write an entire rendering engine that “kept up with the Joneses” and ran natively on Mac OS 8.5 - Mac OS X 10.5 inclusive is nothing short of miraculous.
- Music Industry, Souring on Apple, Embraces Amazon Service - New York Times ★
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Jeff Leeds, reporting for The New York Times on Pepsi’s upcoming billion-song giveaway promotion with Amazon, on why iTunes only has DRM-free music from one major label:
A senior executive at another record company, who requested anonymity out of concern about irritating Mr. Jobs, said he was prepared to keep copy restrictions on his label’s songs on iTunes for six months to a year while Amazon establishes itself.
Mmm, smell that spite.
- Feltron 2007 Annual Report ★
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Magnificent, clever, thoughtful design.
- Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide ★
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Great audio equipment advice for podcasters from my Talk Show co-host Dan Benjamin.