By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 1, 2008
Saturday, 1 March 2008
- Mouseposé 3.0 ★
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Nice update to Boinx’s excellent mouse-highlighting software for presentations and demos. New features include the ability to highlight the window the mouse is hovering over. Free update for anyone with a 2.0 license.
Update: I have to say, the gratuitous “star field” graphic in the background of the main window is annoying. Imagine if every app did this.
- NewsFire 1.5 Released; Now Free of Charge ★
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David Watanabe:
Today’s a big day for NewsFire. After much internal debate, I’ve made the decision that as of today, NewsFire is totally free. No feature restrictions, no ads, no cut-down ‘lite’ version… this is the real deal.
More fallout from NewsGator’s release of NetNewsWire as freeware. NewsFire 1.5 sure does look nice, and offers a different — very slick, very simple — take on feed reading than any other aggregator.
- Frickin’-A ★
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The AP:
A convenience store chain’s billboard advertising its fried chicken sandwich is ruffling the feathers of some residents. Sheetz unveiled the “Crispy Frickin’ Chicken” billboards at the beginning of February.
(a) “Fuck” is so bad a word that even its euphemisms are considered profane; (b) was there any chance whatsoever the newspaper editors would use a headline without the “fowl language” pun? and (c) the convenience store’s own name, Sheetz, itself sounds like a profane description of what you’ll get after you eat one of the crispy frickin’ chicken sandwiches in question.