Linked List: October 3, 2011

Monday, 3 October 2011

Figuring Out Numerals 

Speaking of fonts, here’s a great piece by Yves Peters on the differences between figure styles in fonts. Don’t miss his follow-up, either. (Thanks to Joe Clark.)

Adobe Acquires Typekit 

Great move by Adobe. They’re looking forward, not back.

Update: Adobe acquired PhoneGap, too. Same praise applies: looking forward, not back.

Sprint iPhone to Be a “Multibillion Dollar Gamble,” Reports WSJ 

Tell me again how Android is beating iOS.

(And I like Nilay Patel’s point here — 8 million iPhones per year is not that many. If Sprint’s service is good, that’s a very doable number.)

Android From the Perspective of a Former iPhone User 

I’m only linking to this review of the HTC Thunderbolt because it reinforces my existing views:

Then I could go on to say it doesn’t have an antenna issue like the iPhone 4. That would be a lie, because it does. If you hold it wrong then you’ll be constantly losing your signal and wonder why. I emailed HTC’s support team about this and told them that it really needs to be fixed. The man told me “Hold it differently.” It seems that any way I hold it causes a problem with the signal, no matter if it’s on 4G or not.

Scaling at Instagram 

Mike Krieger, Instagram co-founder, on their engineering blog:

With more than 25 photos and 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram.

25 photos per second is more than the 24 frames per second of a motion picture.

Whatever Happened to the iPad Rivals of 2010? 

Harry McCracken takes a look back.

Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales 

Deep report by Asjylyn Loder and David Evans for Bloomberg on Koch Industries:

A Bloomberg Markets investigation has found that Koch Industries — in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East — has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Great investigative reporting.

Lori Dorn’s Experience With the TSA 

TSA: keeping us safe from women with breast cancer.