Linked List: December 28, 2009

Monday, 28 December 2009

The Long Tail of Humor 

Buzz Andersen on the difference between Tweeteorites and other Twitter favorite aggregators:

As I’ve used it, I’ve found I like Tweeteorites better than the Favrd leaderboard for the same reason I like Foursquare but not Yelp; or the reason I like the Last.fm page that shows what my friends are listening to, but not actual music recommendations; or the reason I like my Delicious network or Tumblr dashboard but not Digg. The latter services are usually only reliable ways to find the broadest possible stuff, because things have to appeal to the masses to bubble up to the top. The former services, however, show me what individual people whose opinion I respect think is cool simply by allowing me to observe them appreciating.

Using Email Aliases in Apple Mail 

I did not know this: You can set up a single account in Apple Mail with multiple “alias” email addresses.

Update: Works the same way on the iPhone.

Irony Explosion, Indeed 

Check out the second YouTube comment on the winning video in the “make a commercial for Psystar” contest — the guy who made the video now “despises” Psystar. (Via Cabel Sasser.)

‘Nation’s Pride’ 

Six-minute version of the fictional Nazi propaganda film from Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, directed by Eli Roth.

Which movie (i.e. Inglourious Basterds), I’ll add, I finally got around to seeing this week. Watched it twice already. So good. Seemed to get decent reviews when it was released, but I found it remarkably entertaining. Mark me down as a big Tarantino fan in general, but I’d score Inglourious Basterds as his best film since Pulp Fiction.

DashNote 

Free Dashboard widget from Resen: a Simplenote client. Works great. (Via Minimal Mac.)