Linked List: July 11, 2010

Sunday, 11 July 2010

Bob Sheppard, Voice of the Yankees, Dies at 99 ★

The NYT:

From the last days of DiMaggio through the primes of Mantle, Berra, Jackson and Jeter, Sheppard’s precise, resonant, even Olympian elocution — he was sometimes called the Voice of God — greeted Yankee fans with the words, “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Yankee Stadium.”

‘It’s a Twinge in Your Heart Far More Powerful Than Memory Alone’ ★

MG Siegler compares Apple’s FaceTime commercial to Don Draper’s pitch for the Kodak wheel on Mad Men.

‘There Is No Hurry. Wait and See.’ ★

Larry Rohter, reporting for the NYT on Mark Twain’s unexpurgated autobiography:

Whether anguishing over American military interventions abroad or delivering jabs at Wall Street tycoons, this Twain is strikingly contemporary. Though the autobiography also contains its share of homespun tales, some of its observations about American life are so acerbic — at one point Twain refers to American soldiers as “uniformed assassins” — that his heirs and editors, as well as the writer himself, feared they would damage his reputation if not withheld.

“From the first, second, third and fourth editions all sound and sane expressions of opinion must be left out,” Twain instructed them in 1906. “There may be a market for that kind of wares a century from now. There is no hurry. Wait and see.”

Tim Bray on Lightroom 3 ★

I’ll echo Bray’s sentiments — Lightroom is a great app and version 3’s noise reduction features are amazing. My only quibble with 3.0 is the video clip storage — seems like an afterthought.

And to head off the inevitable question: no, I haven’t really looked at Aperture since 1.0, so I can’t say how they compare.