Linked List: April 24, 2009

Friday, 24 April 2009

Malcolm McDowell on Stanley Kubrick 

“Wasn’t quite the right place for Stanley.”

(Via Daniel Pasco.)

Macworld Interview With Tweetie Creator Loren Brichter 

Loren Brichter:

One of the fantastic things about Twitter clients is how easy it is for users to jump from one to another. Just type in a username and password and off you go. It’s possible for anyone to write a Twitter client nowadays and have the opportunity to completely blow everyone else out of the water.

Tapbots 

Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad go full-time on Tapbots:

I think it’s nothing short of amazing that we are able to support ourselves with $0 investment (other than time) and all of it $1-$3 at a time.

There remains much to criticize about the App Store, but indeed there is much to be amazed about, too.

Look at This Fucking Hipster 

Aptly-named web site of the day.

Microsoft Surface First-Run Experience 

Gordon Miller on the user experience of setting up a new Microsoft Surface — a $17,000 touchscreen computer that, by design, does not respond to touch input when you first turn it on.

Update: They’ve pulled the original article, so I’ve updated the link to Google’s cached version.

Regarding the PSD File Format 

From the source code comments for Xee, an open source Mac image viewer:

Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this, I had to apply to [Adobe] for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or other, probably signed in blood. I can only imagine that they make this process so difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination. I was naturally not gullible enough to go through with this procedure, but if I had done so, I would have printed out every single page of the spec, and set them all on fire. Were it within my power, I would gather every single copy of those specs, and launch them on a spaceship directly into the sun.

(Via David Weiss.)

The Skeptical Hypochondriac 

New weblog by Dave Pell on health-related topics. From the About page:

This blog is Oscar Goldman and you’re Steve Austin. Reading it is like taking a chug from the fountain of youth and realizing it not only works, it tastes exactly like a McDonald’s Shamrock Shake.

Love the design by Brian Moco, too.