By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 27, 2008
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
- Maxim Publishes Review of Black Crowes Album They Haven’t Heard ★
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The review in Maxim’s March issue gives the Crowes’ “Warpaint” a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five. The band posted an exasperated statement on its Web site last week saying the Maxim writer hadn’t heard the entire album because advance copies weren’t available. The Crowes’ manager, Pete Angelus, said the magazine explained that its review was an “educated guess.”
Where by “hadn’t heard the entire album” they mean “heard one song”. My four-year-old boy offers more sincere apologies than this. That said, here’s my review of the March issue of Maxim, which I haven’t read: shitty. (Thanks to the wife.)
- The Big Word Project ★
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New viral web site “dictionary” from Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe, two students in Northern Ireland. The gimmick is simple: pick any word you want, pay $1 per letter, and you get to “define” that word as a link to your web site. I bought two.
- MegaPhone 1.5.1 ★
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Formerly known as iPhoneDrive (or as developer Glen Aspeslagh put it: “iPhoneDrive is now known a MegaPhone and features 100% less trademark infringement”), MegaPhone is a $20 utility that lets you use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a disk, access your iTunes media on the device, read/edit/add notes, view and export call history and SMS messages, and more. The notes integration requires an iPhone restart on every edit or addition, but it’s still better than what Apple provides.
- Apple: Event on March 6 About iPhone SDK, Enterprise ★
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Apple’s holding a media event next Thursday “about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features.” My guess on the “enterprise features” is Exchange support of some sort, perhaps just for email.
- Garfield Minus Garfield ★
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Some of these are hilarious:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
- Localised Application Names ★
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Sven-S. Porst:
Mac OS X comes with the ability to localise displayed application names. While that seems like a great feature at first, it is an essentially flawed idea. Flawed because it makes things inconsistent. And thus makes it harder to communicate with people or the machine about those items.
Sounds like a real mess. (Thanks to Joe Clark.)