Linked List: January 25, 2014

Saturday, 25 January 2014

Squarespace 

My thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Squarespace makes it easy to build, design, and host your own website. Start by choosing one of their award-winning mobile-ready (cough, cough) templates, then customize it using their drag-and-drop tools, or by editing the code itself.

You can use Squarespace to create everything from blogs to portfolios to online stores. Check out some of their example sites and see for yourself just how general purpose the Squarespace platform is. Other good stuff: 24/7 customer support, domain name registration service, traffic analytics, and free webfonts from TypeKit. Check it out with a free trial and see for yourself.

How the ‘Lost’ Original Mac Intro Video Was Found (And Got Scott Knaster’s Name Stuck to It) 

Young Steve Jobs, in all his bow-tied glory.

A Machine That Changed Everything 

Stephen Fry:

What cannot be denied is that the first Macintosh changed my life completely. It made me want to write, I couldn’t wait to get to it every morning. If you compare computers to offices, the Mac was the equivalent of the most beautifully designed colourful space, with jazzy carpets on shiny oak floors, a pool table, wooden beams, a cappuccino machine, posters and great music playing. The rest of the world trudged into Microsoft’s operating system: a grey, soulless partitioned office, with nylon carpets, flickering fluorescent lamps and a faintly damp smell. I made that architectural design analogy time after time and no one seemed to notice, thought I was just pretentious. But now of course, MS are as aware of sick building/OS syndrome as anyone else, and have, since the launch of iPad and new range of OS X operating systems gone out of their way to tread the true path to deliciousness, colour, feel, joy, pleasure and taste without which function cannot… well… function.

‘But on the Whole, It’s Gambling That the World Is Ready to Accept a New Standard. My Personal Point of View Is That the World Is Not.’ 

NPR serves up some delicious vintage 1984 claim chowder.