Linked List: June 23, 2009

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Methodist University Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’s Liver Transplant (PDF) ★

Statement from Jobs’s hospital:

I am pleased to confirm today, with the patient’s permission, that Steve Jobs received a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in partnership with the University of Tennessee in Memphis. Mr. Jobs underwent a complete transplant evaluation and was listed for transplantation for an approved indication in accordance with the Transplant Institute policies and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policies. He received a liver transplant because he was the patient with the highest MELD score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) of his blood type and, therefore, the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available. Mr. Jobs is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis.

Mystery no more, and this makes me think Jobs himself was the source for the WSJ’s story Friday.

Iron City ★

Kris Maher, reporting for The Wall Street Journal last week:

The Steel City is losing its Iron City.

On Monday, the last batch of Iron City beer will be brewed at the nine-acre, red-brick brewery complex outside downtown Pittsburgh that was founded in 1861. Production will move 40 miles away to the Latrobe, Pa., brewery that once made another recently displaced regional favorite, Rolling Rock beer, now brewed in Newark, N.J.

This is like Duff moving out of Springfield.

How to Show the Battery Percentage Indicator on iPhone 3GS ★

I turned this on for a few days over the weekend, but I found it nerve-wracking. My battery never dipped below 50 percent, but I felt like it was draining constantly because it’d lose a point every few minutes. I’m not sure why this is a 3GS-only feature; perhaps the battery meter in the 3GS is more accurate than on the older hardware.

Claim Chowder: Gene Munster ★

CNN Money, five days ago:

Will there be long lines outside Apple Stores Friday at 7 a.m. when the iPhone 3GS goes on sale? Gene Munster thinks there will, although not as long as last year’s.

Piper Jaffray’s senior research analyst issued a report to clients Thursday in which he estimates that Apple (AAPL) will sell half a million units of the new iPhone this weekend.

Apple, of course, wound up selling over one million. Munster, you will recall, is the same oft-quoted Apple analyst who, back in May, predicted that Apple would not announce new iPhones at WWDC, missing the easiest and most obvious Apple-related prediction of the year. He’s not quite in Rob Enderle territory yet, but give him time.

Fraud on eBay ★

Bruce Schneier suspects that pervasive fraud is rendering eBay useless for selling things like computers.

John C. Welch on Adobe’s Arrogance Regarding Flash ★

In his usual charming style.

Dvorak in 2007: ‘Apple Should Pull the Plug on the iPhone’ ★

Tasty claim chowder.