Linked List: April 1, 2008

Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Yankees Win Home Opener 

Here’s to hoping they win the last game of the season, too.

Epiphany, the Gnome Web Browser, Is Switching to WebKit 

They’re switching to WebKit from Gecko:

We feel that WebKit has the momentum, and can bring more developers to both Epiphany directly and the Gnome platform by extension. WebKit/GTK+ already has more people working on it than are working on either GtkMozEmbed or the Epiphany gecko back-end.

(See also Mark Pilgrim’s remark on Delicious w/r/t making serious announcements on Internet Jackass Day.)

Why Seth Dillingham Wrote a JavaScript Module for BBEdit 

Nice illustration of actions speaking louder than words. (I don’t think Seth is ever going to stop crying about how hard it is to parse Markdown, though.)

Sprint’s Samsung Instinct: Another Shameless iPhone Knockoff 

I enjoy how in this initial report, based on a press release and press screenshots, Gizmodo dubs it a “decent iPhone competitor”, but then when they actually got to see one firsthand it ends up — surprise surprise — that it’s buggy as hell. Plus the web browser, despite the magic bullet of 3G networking, is “painfully slow”.

Update: Good analogy from Jason Snell.

Captioning Sucks 

Informative, well-written new web site from Joe Clark’s Open and Closed Project regarding the sorry state of captioning and what can be done to fix it.

Dan Moren on Apple’s New iPhone Commercials 

I love how they continue to advertise the iPhone simply by showing how it actually works. You almost never see any product, especially in consumer electronics, advertised this way.

Check Out the New Web Site for Coudal/37signals/Et al.’s Seed Conference 

Crackerjack web typography. (Looks like a swell conference, too.)

Netflix Says They’re Sorry 

Remiel:

When I used to wait tables, one thing I learned early on was that a small mistake by me or the kitchen was actually an opportunity for me to make more money. Customers were routinely far more impressed with a well-handled mistake (which they actively noticed) than with trouble-free service (which they took for granted).

(Via Scott Simpson.)

New York Times Profile of Cartoonist Al Jaffee 

The 87-year-old Jaffee has been drawing Mad’s back-cover “fold-in” since 1964. Do not miss the interactive feature with foldable-on-the-web examples. (Via Andy Baio.)