Linked List: December 20, 2010

Monday, 20 December 2010

Motorola Hypes CES Android Tablet Announcement 

The iPad is just a “giant iPhone”.

Kod 

Upcoming soon-to-hit-beta Mac OS X text editor by Rasmus Andersson. Novelties include: Chrome-style tabs, integrated scripting environment based on Node.js, and “styling of the editor (not only the syntax highlighting) through regular CSS 3”. I don’t often link to software that hasn’t shipped yet, but this one caught my eye.

Gorgeous Map of the Facebook World 

Great data visualization from Paul Butler at Facebook.

Olly Moss’s Star Wars Posters 

Perfect, all three of them.

Regarding Those Cut Scenes From ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ 

A slew of DF readers have sent me links to reports about Warner Brothers having discovered 17 minutes of “lost” footage from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’d like to see the footage, sure, but not spliced back into the film as some sort of “extended cut”. It was Kubrick himself who cut these scenes from the film, not the studio. We already have the director’s cut of 2001.

Sony Claims to Be Optimistic About Google TV 

Hiroko Tabuchi, reporting from Tokyo for the NYT:

Speaking to reporters in Tokyo on Monday, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Sony’s executive deputy president and head of Sony’s TV business, said sales of the Google TVs were “in line with expectations.“ He declined to give specific numbers. [...]

Mr. Yoshioka agreed that initial reviews of the TV were mixed. “Some reviews have been good, some have been bad,” he said. “It might take a little longer for users to really start having fun” with Google TVs, he said.

Just takes a few months to figure out the remote, perhaps.