Linked List: June 23, 2008

Monday, 23 June 2008

Of the National Geographic variety. (Via Apple Hot News.)

Probably my favorite Carlin bit ever.

He still had it.

Daniel Eran Dilger on some of the more significant changes in the WWDC seed of Snow Leopard. Interesting, but perhaps not surprising, is how much smaller (on disk) some of the standard apps are. Mail, for example, has shrunk from 287 to 91 MB. With the switch to solid-state drives, every megabyte once again counts.

Those iPhone Suckers ★

The Macalope on the resale value of original iPhones.

WSJ Story on the Delay of Google’s Android Launch ★

Jessica E. Vascellaro and Amol Sharma, reporting for The Wall Street Journal:

The Internet giant and more than 30 partners announced in November a bold plan for a new breed of handsets based on a suite of mobile software called Android. At the time, Google said it planned to have the new phones on the market by the second half of this year.

Google now says that the handsets won’t arrive until the fourth quarter. And some cellular carriers and makers of programs that work with Android are struggling to meet that schedule, people familiar with the situation say.

The problem with vaporware announcements is that what seems “close” to being launched often isn’t. Apple pre-announced the iPhone six months in advance, but at that time, they had the hardware specs nailed down and a credible version of the software up and running. Some of the iPhone apps weren’t implemented yet, but most were. And the iPhone team had to work its ass off to finish the remaining work to get them into stores on June 29.

We still haven’t seen an Android phone that’s as far along as the six-months-away-from-shipping iPhone that was unveiled at Macworld in January 2007.

Firefox 3 and iWeb Photo Galleries ★

Joshua Ochs on the JavaScript conflict that causes iWeb-generated photo galleries not to display properly in Firefox 3 (including a workaround). (Via Charles Jade.)

The Most Unfair Thing About Life ★

Adam Lisagor quotes a perfect bit from George Carlin.

Update: This page on Carlin’s official web site claims this bit is not his.

Original iPhones Holding Their Value ★

Kottke reports that original iPhones are holding their resale value on eBay:

This week: you might actually break even or turn a small profit from selling your old iPhone on eBay or Craigslist. A quick search reveals that used & unlocked 8 GB iPhones are going for ~$400 and 16 GB for upwards of $500, with never-opened phones going for even more.

Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X ★

Free plugin for Firefox that “uses PDFKit to display PDFs in the browser.” Another one of my biggest complaints about Firefox vs. Safari is solved by a plugin.

George Carlin Dies at 71 ★

Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits. One more word: hero.