Linked List: August 3, 2014

Sunday, 3 August 2014

If you’re looking for something good to read to finish the weekend, you’ll find nothing better than Joseph Mitchell’s 1940 profile of McSorley’s Old Ale House, newly (but I think only temporarily) freed from the confines of The New Yorker’s paywall.

Just read the first paragraph and see how Mitchell pulls you in. So great.

(If you like Mitchell’s writing as much as I do, I heartily recommend Up in the Old Hotel, a collection of his remarkable work.)

Last Call for DF T-Shirts ★

We start printing tomorrow, so today’s the last day to order for this batch of shirts.

Update: Alas, the shirt store is now closed. We should have another round later in the year, before the holidays.

Not Taking It Seriously ★

Reuters:

Top executives at Dell and BlackBerry Ltd scoffed at the threat posed by the alliance this week, arguing the tie-up is unlikely to derail the efforts of their own companies to re-invent themselves.

“I do not think that we take the Apple-IBM tie-up terribly seriously. I think it just made a good press release,” John Swainson, who heads Dell’s global software business, said in an interview with Reuters in Toronto on Thursday.

This story is a little over a week old, but it popped into my head today what the above quote reminds me of.