By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: October 11, 2008
Saturday, 11 October 2008
- Ply It Forward ★
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This idea is genius.
- Apple Retail Store ‘Field Trip’ Program ★
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I think it’s downright sickening that any school would consider a trip to a retail store as a legitimate field trip. Consumer advertising has no place in education. The fact that the U.S. public education system is in such a sorry state that this is even possible doesn’t mean Apple should encourage it. It’s appalling.
- iPhone Application Graveyard ★
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Peter Hosey is maintaining a directory of apps which were rejected or pulled from the App Store.
- Megamovies, TV Shows as Days-Long Movies ★
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Kottke, referencing this astute 1999 review by Vincent Canby of the first season of The Sopranos, on serious TV shows as days-long movies:
Episodes of these megamovies, Canby argued presciently, are best watched in bunches, so that the parts more easily make the whole in the viewer’s mind. For many, bingeing on entire seasons on DVD or downloaded via iTunes has become the preferred way to watch these shows. If stamina and non-televisual responsibilities weren’t an issue, it would be preferable to watch these shows in one sitting, as one does with a movie.
- Video: Content-Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4 ★
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Technically very impressive, but in practice I can’t help but wonder if the feature is going to be abused. (UI sidenote: Why in the world did Adobe put the close buttons for document tabs on the right side of the tabs for the Mac version?)
- How to Record a Podcast With People in Multiple Locations ★
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Dan Benjamin describes the “double-ender”: the simple, highly effective technique we use to record The Talk Show. (Speaking of which, the new fall season starts next week.)
- ‘Not Something That Can Be Debated’ ★
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Someone seems a tad defensive.
- Mad Men, Mad Props ★
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Mark Simonson on the occasional anachronistic typeface choices in Mad Men.