Linked List: March 31, 2008

Monday, 31 March 2008

Your April Fool’s Day Joke Continues to Suck 

Amen to that.

Dropclock 

Lovely-to-behold screensaver clock featuring Helvetica Bold numbers dropping into water in super-slow-motion. $15 and 137 MB to download. (Just the idea of a 100+ MB screensaver makes me laugh.)

Run Some Old Web Browsers Day 

Jamie Zawinski:

In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online.

It took some doing. There is comedy.

Awesome retro web goodness. Read the whole thing, it’s a great story. (Via Kottke.)

Peter King on the Air 

Filed under “Aggravating/Enjoyable Travel Note of the Week”, here’s Sports Illustrated NFL beat writer Peter King on the MacBook Air:

“Can I hold that for a second?”

I’ve heard that question, or some derivative of it, a dozen times in the past month, when I’ve traveled with my feather-light MacBook Air. The other day, on my flight to Fort Lauderdale, a women holding a 5-month-old baby in her left arm, gently bouncing her up and down, admired the little laptop and I said, “Here — you can even hold it while holding the baby.” The woman took it with her right hand and held it like it was the new Grisham book, shaking her head in amazement. It’s almost that light.

Outspring Mail 

Some people, I’m sure, look at a new $95 email client and think, “$95 for an email client? Are they nuts?” Me, on the other hand, I thought, “Wow, cool, I hope it’s good.”

Warning signs were evident right from the start, though: no screenshots — let alone screencasts — on the web site. So, I downloaded it, installed it, launched it. Crash on launch. Launched again, saw splash screen (a splash screen? really?), crashed during launch again. And so in the trash it went.

Adam Engst had more luck than I did, so I’m linking to his brief review of Outspring (which includes a screenshot) at TidBITS.