By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 22, 2008
Friday, 22 February 2008
- Tinderbox ★
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My thanks to Eastgate for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Their app Tinderbox is a “personal content assistant that helps you to visualize, analyze, and share your notes”. Features include a wiki, an outliner, and mapping tools to connect and describe the relationship between notes. Top-notch XML and HTML export make it a terrific publishing tool, too. They’ve set up a page full of deals for DF readers — you’ll save at least $35 if you order this week.
- Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption ★
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Ed Felten:
Our results show that an attacker can cut power to the computer, then power it back up and boot a malicious operating system (from, say, a thumb drive) that copies the contents of memory. Having done that, the attacker can search through the captured memory contents, find any crypto keys that might be there, and use them to start decrypting hard disk contents.
- Pixelmator, Acorn, and Iris Doing Real-World Tasks ★
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Lukas Mathis:
I’ve seen a few reviews of these applications, but the reviews mostly concentrate on user interface concerns. I’d like to do something different here; Instead of simply looking at their UI, I’d like to look at how these applications handle tasks I typically do.
(He reviewed Acorn 1.0.3, not the 1.1 public beta, which is totally fair — but in my experience Acorn 1.1b1’s performance is dramatically improved. Not sure if it’d help in these tests, though.)
- iTunes Weekend Movie Picks for 99 Cents Each ★
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Aayush Arya on a new iTunes movie rental deal: “Every Thursday to Monday, a library title will be available for rental at the steeply discounted price of $0.99, but with the same privileges as normal rented movies.”
- Kottke: ‘Interview With HD DVD Player Owner Steven Johnson’ ★
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Steven Johnson:
I thought it was pretty funny. I mean, the Betamax adopters at least had a few years to nag their VHS friends about the better picture quality, before the format died a slow death. But HD-DVD — they just took it out back and shot it! I think that’s what’s so striking about this. I can’t remember a standards war where the winner was crowned so definitively.
- lowercase L ★
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Web site dedicated to “hand-written signs with letters in all-caps, except for the letter L”. (Via Jonathan Rentzsch.)
- Another Shitty Article by Ben Charny ★
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Joel Spolsky on another error-ridden article yesterday by Ben Charny.
- MGTwitterEngine ★
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New open source Twitter API library for Cocoa by Matt Gemmell.
- Winners of Veerle Pieter’s ‘What Is Graphic Design?’ Poster Competition ★
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Wonderful work.