Linked List: June 16, 2008

Monday, 16 June 2008

The Free iPhone 3G on O2 

Nice total-cost-of-ownership analysis for the iPhone 3G in the U.K. with O2.

The Infinite Loop 

Ken Aspeslagh on WWDC:

You can separate the OS X feature engineering work done by Apple into two categories. There’s the features that are exciting to the typical Mac user, and then there’s the features that are only exciting to software developers. When Apple says that they’re “hitting the pause button on new features”, they’re talking about that first category of features.

Iris 1.0 

Nolobe’s $79 one-window image editor finally hits 1.0.

Al Gore Endorses Obama 

Al Gore:

Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges — including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our economy, and solving the climate crisis. Barack Obama is clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change to America.

Coudal Partners’ Field Tested Books 2008 

Jim Coudal, introducing this year’s edition of Field Tested Books:

We hope you’ll find inspiration while browsing the online or printed collections. We certainly have. It’s been said many times that “books take you places.” It only seems right to return the favor.

This year, for the first time, you buy a collection of these pieces in a physical book. Also, there’s a new piece from yours truly.

Steve Weller’s WWDC Photos 

Great set of photos, including a slew from Tuesday’s CocoaHeads indie developer confab at the Apple Store in San Francisco.

Weight Loss as a Long-Term Effect of the Whipple Procedure 

Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt on the long-term effects of the Whipple procedure, the complicated surgery Steve Jobs had in 2004 to remove a tumor from his pancreas:

Along with the digestive problems, patients often lose 5% to 10% of their body weight after the procedure. Weight stabilizes within the first year or two for the vast majority of patients, says Dr. Dilip Parekh, chief of tumor and endocrine surgery at the University of Southern California, who has performed more than 100 Whipple procedures. “There is a small group of people who tend to have persistent problems with weight loss and loss of energy and you often you are not able to pinpoint why,” he says. “But if they stay active and manage their nutrition well, there is no reason for them not to live a normal life.”

Photos From WWDC 2008 

A selection of photos I took last week at WWDC.

A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country 

Jiminy.

Lessons From My Father: The Outlaw 

Juan Thompson on his father, Hunter S. Thompson.

Why Me? 

Adam Lisagor on Apple’s new MobileMe brand:

With the MobileMe unveiling (and that of its complementary domain me.com), it’s looking like a shift is afoot for Apple—a shift that may be every bit as significant as the shift from PowerPC to the Intel processor, but a shift in ideology whose signs may be found in the simple grammatical switch from subject (I) to object (me).