Linked List: July 28, 2008

Monday, 28 July 2008

Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit ★

Gary Hustwit, director of the outstanding documentary Helvetica, has unveiled his follow-up: Objectified, a film about industrial design. The cast of interviewed designers includes Jonathan Ive from Apple and Dieter Rams from Braun, among dozens of others.

Cuil ★

New web search engine founded by former Google employees. The results seem pretty good in my quick tire-kicking test, and I like the way results are presented. And you have to admire the stones of a company that is taking Google head-on in web search. More about Cuil from Google News.

Leaked Trailer for Oliver Stone’s ‘W.’ ★

Cast looks great. Have a feeling this movie’s going to make some noise.

Update: Updated the link to point to the video on Trailer Addict — the version I linked to on YouTube yesterday was pulled.

The iPhone Remote App Has a Better Interface Than the Native iPod App ★

The Remote app looks better, shows more information at once, and has very nice optimizations for scrolling long lists. Plus it has a search feature.

StupidFilter ★

Open source natural language processor that attempts to identify idiotic comments on the web — like a spam filter for stupidity.

Update: Their server seems to be struggling to handle the traffic, at the moment.

NetNewsWire 1.0.7 for iPhone ★

Brent Simmons on the first update to NetNewsWire to appear in the App Store. Amazing how much improved it is over 1.0. Update: Just to be clear, the version that the App Store calls “1.0.1” is actually version 1.0.7. Sorry for any confusion, but it’s the App Store’s fault.

Apple Fails to Patch Critical Exploited DNS Flaw ★

Rich Mogull on Apple’s lack of response to the critical DNS flaw that nearly all other OS vendors have issued patches for.