Linked List: September 6, 2013

Friday, 6 September 2013

Brian Hogan: ‘Gizmodo Took Advantage of Me.’ ★

Remember Brian Hogan, the guy who found the iPhone 4 in a bar and sold it to Gizmodo back in 2010? Ends up Gawker screwed him out of the money they promised him. Classy.

The Cringe-Inducing Amounts of Stretching, Resizing, and Let’s-Screw-Up-the-Kerning-and-Baseline-for-the-Hell-of-It Adjustments in the New Logo Remind Me of Someone Taking a Burberry Suit and Purposely Cutting One Sleeve Longer Than the Other ‘Just for Fun’. ★

Dave Rahardja on the new Yahoo logo. Couldn’t agree more.

Pinterest and Path to Battle Over Letter ‘P’ Logo Trademark ★

I’d like to see the Philadelphia Phillies get involved.

Say Goodbye to the iPod Classic? ★

Christina Bonnington, writing for Wired Gadget Lab:

One thing we’re not expecting to see Tuesday? A new iPod classic.

“I don’t see Apple investing any more into the iPod classic, even just to upgrade the connector,” Forrester analyst Charles Golvin told Wired. Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer of Gazelle.com, shares a similar sentiment.

I’m surprised it stayed in the lineup last year.

The NSA Can Decrypt Much Encrypted Web Traffic ★

This comes as no surprise, but it’s fascinating nonetheless. They’ve achieved much of this via cheating — not by cracking the encryption through brute force but by obtaining the keys, and by helping to engineer and establish encryption standards with weaknesses known by (or designed by) the NSA itself.