Links for 2006-01-18
Posted January 18, 2006 12:20 AM.
- Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD talks about his 'problem child' to the New York Times This is one that's lurked in my stash of 'things I must post' for a good few weeks, but as usual I'm not prepared to actually stick it on my site until I've read it through. It's slight, but it's interesting.
- YouTube hosts a video comparing the boot times of an iMac G5 with a new Intel iMac It's not the most scientific of tests, but the Intel Mac trounces the G5 pretty massively. I'm hoping to get myself a new Intel iMac later this week - I'll be popping in tomorrow in fact to see if they've got them in yet...
- Design Observer writes about the glacially beautiful pace of design innovation at the New Yorker A lovely article, which really explores the careful custodianship and development of a design pattern. I understand the authors frustration with the speed of design shifts now, but I think it's just what happens in response to a new medium...
- I hope you're all celebrating Calmas, in accordance with the wishes of our forefathers... One father, Two fathers, Three fathers, FOREFATHERS! Bad joke. See also - forebrain, forebears (FOUR BEARS!) I should probably retire it to my internal monologue, where I'm able to laugh at my funny thoughts without alienating anyone...
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
There's another view on the intel vs G5 boot times here
→ Posted by: Colin at January 18, 2006 9:58 AM
It does seem like that G5 vs. Intel iMac video has been trashed as no way does a 1.8Ghz G5 take over a minute to boot up. Mine is the exact same model in that video with 1GB of RAM running 10.4.4 and i can be logged into (and i have to stop any type a password) my user account in less than 50 seconds plus another 15 or so seconds for all my launch applications such as Audioscrobler, Mail, iCal, iChat and Skype to get going.
→ Posted by: Neil at January 18, 2006 4:40 PM
Off topic here Tom, but is there any way you could make the article titles for your links of the day any more descriptive?
I realise you may have done this for a) space limits or b) made it suitably vague to inspire curiosity, but like any web user, I simply gloss over it when I'm scanning the page on my RSS reader. In web content guidelines, it's a no-no.
How about using a punchy title referring to one of the links? I'd be more likely to click it. Hope this helps.
Dan
→ Posted by: Dan at January 18, 2006 6:05 PM
yeah seconded, no way does my iMac g5 take that long to load!
→ Posted by: Paul Mac at January 19, 2006 10:56 PM
The MacBook Pro is not even out yet, and I am already achingly hot for it. The worst part is that I know, know for a fact, that I am primarily attracted to it not for reasons of performance but because it has a magnetised plug socket. I suck.
→ Posted by: Dan at January 24, 2006 5:13 PM