By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: September 13, 2008
Saturday, 13 September 2008
- David Foster Wallace Dead of Suicide at 46 ★
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Oh, this is just awful:
David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 tome “Infinite Jest,” was found dead last night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46.
Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the Claremont Police Department, said Wallace’s wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find her husband had hanged himself.
Wallace was my favorite writer, period.
Gawker has an excerpt of a 2005 speech at Kenyon College wherein Wallace talked about suicide.
- Harry McCracken on the App Store ★
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Harry McCracken:
Way back when, if software distribution for the Mac had been handled via a Mac App Store with a don’t-duplicate-Apple-products policy, Photoshop might have been refused distribution on the grounds that it was too similar to MacPaint.
- Updated Version of iTunes 8 for Windows ★
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The initial release was a disaster, causing BSODs for many users.
- Why the iPhone Is an Unreliable Platform ★
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Dave Winer:
It’s pretty simple, Apple could decide not to approve the app, and if they don’t approve it you can’t sell it. You can’t even give it away. You don’t find out if you’ve been approved until the last step, after you’ve fully invested, which you could lose, totally, if Apple says no.
It’d be different if Apple had published an explicit rule stating, for example, that podcasting apps are prohibited. But there is no such guideline. Podcaster seems to fully comply with Apple’s published guidelines, and yet it was rejected for violating a secret rule.
- A Bridge Too Far ★
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Paul Kafasis on Podcaster and Apple’s App Store policies.