Linked List: April 17, 2009

Friday, 17 April 2009

Spanning Sync connects Mac OS X’s iCal and Address Book to Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts, and allows you to share calendars and contacts between multiple Macs. It includes full support for Google Apps, and connects Google calendars and contacts with your iPhone. Check out the screencast on their web site for a great demo of how it works.

My thanks to Spanning Sync for sponsoring the DF RSS feed this week. Save 20 percent off a one year subscription using discount code “DFBALL” (which should automatically apply just by following this link).

The Road to HTML 5: Link Relations ★

Mark Pilgrim:

Regular links (<a href>) simply point to another page. Link relations are a way to explain why you’re pointing to another page. They finish the sentence “I’m pointing to this other page because…”

Court Finds Pirate Bay Founders Guilty ★

BBC:

Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages.

Quoting Peter Sunde:

“It’s so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it’s even more bizarre that we were [convicted] as a team. The court said we were organised. I can’t get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you’re going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime.

“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn’t even give them the ashes.”

Bush Administration’s Legal Memos Justifying Torture ★

Read them and judge for yourself.