Links for 2007-01-16
Posted January 16, 2007 12:17 AM.
- Jeff Veen writes about the trends pages of Google Reader and mentions his increasing lust for recombinable life data streams I really think there's something here - life dashboards or something. I'd love to be able to see my financial burn rate, my location, my energy usage, my tracked weight—all of this stuff—visable and interpretable.
- This Flickr set contains pictures of an iPhone Cardboard mock-up with rounded corners I love that people have time to do these things, and I really appreciate their existence. I'm a bit jealous, actually. I'd love to spend time like this...
- Does anyone know much about the DLD conference? I'm thinking of going (at quite short notice) but I don't know enough about it to make a reasonable judgement about it.
- Mark Pilgrim has a rather negative view of Steve Jobs' announcement about iPhone software I'm a bit new to this particular shitstorm that seems to be coursing over the internet, but it seems to me that this is no more or less spectacular than Nokia's requirement that you get applications signed before they can be run on Series 60...
- There's probably some history to the use of the line, "Macs are for queers" in this Penny Arcade cartoon that I'd love it if someone could explain to me... In the meantime, without the benefit of history (like many other readers of that strip), I'm going to pretend it says, "Macs are for niggers", come to my own conclusions and move right along...
- Ooh, there's now a rounded version of the Gotham typeface (used everywhere, including in Yahoo product names) If anyone's ever seem me talk at conferences, they'll know that I'm a bit of a fan of the rounded font. It's a bit of a Web 2.0 fetish as well. Personally at the moment I like the uniform stroke widths of VAG Rounded, but this looks pretty interesting...
- Typographica writes about Gotham Rounded and compares it to various other rounded faces... An interesting overview, complete with reference to Bryant, which has some lovely stemless variants of m, n, u and w
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.
*Channelling Tebbit*
...but you don't have to 'choose' to act like a gay...
*End of channelling Tebbit*
(It's one of my real hates that the word 'gay' is used to mean 'crap' and it makes me feel like an old man when I lecture 'American wannabe' kids into how stupid it sounds).
Needless to say Penny Arcade has sunk in my estimation.
→ Posted by: Tom Reynolds at January 16, 2007 6:56 AM
As for the Penny Arcade, I think he was refering to the character's former attitude to Mac and Apple, not that it would be some general view of society ;)
→ Posted by: jan korbel at January 16, 2007 8:22 AM
Re iPhone and Nokia Series 60. A few key differences. The first is the user on S60 can say in a dialog "yes I know this is unsigned, please install and run it anyway," Nokia exposes all the API's and makes clear which are available to unsgined apps. You can code in C++, Java/J2ME, Python, Flash...
With the iPhone, Jobs has said "nobody's playing but my develoeprs" and closed all the doors. Even during the iPhone keynote, a lot of mobile Developers I know were being IM'ed if they could port apps to the iPhone, and they all had to say no.
Say Apple don't want to add support for MS-Word? I can think of three companies that would have a running app in a few months, to a high standard. They're already competing on Pocket PC, Palm and Symbian. That's what the difference is.
→ Posted by: Ewan Spence at January 16, 2007 9:27 AM
The characters in Penny Arcade are regularly made out to be cretins and idiots; depicting acts of murder and ignorance of the country of Japan, for example. Based on their previous work and the voice of their blog, I think this was supposed to continue that running joke by making Gabe seem like an ass for his previous opinion and current obsession.
→ Posted by: Trevor F. Smith at January 16, 2007 10:42 AM
Gotham Rounded - fonts as fetish? Absolutely beautiful!
→ Posted by: Richard at January 17, 2007 12:08 AM
"There has always been something illicit about playing for the other team."
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/03
→ Posted by: Vitorio at January 17, 2007 2:08 AM
The DLD sounds rather dull from most of what I can tell, but I'll be there on Monday to drink beer so you should come and drink beer also :)
→ Posted by: Andy Smith at January 17, 2007 5:03 PM