Linked List: May 27, 2008

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Just four short years after the smash hit 1.0 release, Delicious Library 2.0 ships.

Pragmatic keeps up their tradition of great content from smart developers, presented with atrocious typography.

“A content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries” — i.e. Google-hosted versions of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, and Dojo.

Drawing Conclusions ★

Jon Whipple’s comprehensive 14,000+ word comparison of four Adobe Illustrator competitors for Mac OS X: Intaglio, Lineform, VectorDesigner, and ZeusDraw. Very thoughtful analysis.

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine ★

Danny Hillis on working with Richard Feynman at Thinking Machines. (Via Simon Willison.)

James Duncan Davidson’s Print Store ★

High-quality prints from Duncan Davidson. My favorite so far is this one. More from Duncan on his blog.

Workaround Hack for Flip4Mac Camino Plugin Bug ★

A longstanding bug in Flip4Mac’s Mac OS X plugin for Firefox and Camino causes window contents to get scrambled. Camino developers reported the bug to Telestream ~~six months~~ over two years ago, but it still isn’t fixed, so they’ve released a patch to fix it themselves.

Creating Geometric Patterns in Illustrator ★

Always with the Kubrick references in these sites in the Deck network. Always.

TeliaSonera to Sell iPhone in Nordic and Baltic Countries ★

Another to-the-point-and-no-more PR:

TeliaSonera today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia later this year.

Here’s an interview (Google translation) in which nothing at all is revealed.