Linked List: March 30, 2008

Sunday, 30 March 2008

John Nack: A Note About the Photoshop Express Terms of Use ★

I got a slew of emails regarding this after I linked to Photoshop Express last week; good to hear that Adobe’s legal department is revising this clause.

How to Disagree ★

Paul Graham:

If we’re all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well? Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate stages. So here’s an attempt at a disagreement hierarchy.

Upcoming BlackBerry 9000 Industrial Design Looks Oddly Familiar ★

If you’re going to call it the “9000” and shamelessly crib the design of another computing device, may I suggest copying this instead.

A Journey to Baseball’s Alternate Universe ★

Mathematicians run 10,000 simulations of the entire history of major league baseball to supposedly prove that Joe DiMaggio’s 1941 56-consecutive-game hitting streak isn’t really that big a deal. In their models, a slew of other players achieved as long or longer streaks.

Their results are clearly flawed, however, in that many of the players they claim were supposedly capable of doing this never played for the New York Yankees.

Offices and the Creativity Zone ★

Dan Benjamin on workspaces and distractions.