Linked List: January 11, 2013

Friday, 11 January 2013

The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0 ★

Updated 20th anniversary edition of Robert Bringhurst’s masterpiece; hailed by no less than Hoefler & Frere-Jones as “the finest book ever written about typography”.

‘Inappropriate Outfits’ ★

This week’s episode of my podcast, The Talk Show, with special guest Dan Frommer. Topics include CES 2013, the disparity in display size between the iPhone and all of its competitors, and Dan’s new endeavor, City Notes.

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Gorgeous work. (Via Dooce.)

The Verge Best of CES Awards ★

The Oculus Rift virtual reality thing sounds amazing. Interesting too how many of the hardware products are from small startups rather than big established companies.

Apple Blocks Java 7 Plugin on OS X to Address Widespread Security Threat ★

Eric Slivka, Mac Rumors:

Apple has, however, apparently already moved quickly to address the issue, disabling the Java 7 plug-in on Macs where it is already installed. Apple has achieved this by updating its “Xprotect.plist” blacklist to require a minimum of an as-yet unreleased 1.7.0_10-b19 version of Java 7. With the current publicly-available version of Java 7 being 1.7.0_10-b18, all systems running Java 7 are failing to pass the check initiated through the anti-malware system built into OS X.

Most recent Macs probably don’t even have Java installed, but it’s pretty clever that Apple can blacklist vulnerable versions remotely.