Link Sharing: 2/21/08

February 21st, 2008

Yet another installment of Link Sharing. I’ll try to add more commentary from here on out.

Serious Eats: Where to Find Macarons: I never really heard of macarons until I read this article. I guess all this time I’ve been eating the American version: The Oreo. There are some shops in San Francisco so perhaps I’ll indulge my culinary curiosity.

Bornrich: Armchair Paradise, Music Therapy in a Shell: A sequel to the Prisoner ball chair from last week, or maybe this person is being eaten by Marvin the Robot.

Wisebread: Longtime Mac Users Punished for Loyalty: This requires some further investigation, but supposedly the latest generation of iPods require an OS over 10.4.8 which means most likely, upgrading to Leopard. There are still a fair amount of older Macs out there that can’t run Leopard - you need a G4 at least 867 MHz or faster.

Angry Journalist: Check out this site to read senseless rants, like screams of trapped knights within a castle as teeming barbarian hordes storm the walls.

What Techno Addiction Really Means: Insight on wasting too much time on the Internets. I consider one symptom to be “suffers from withdrawal” meaning, if the power goes out or the network goes down, do you freak out and pace aimlessly until you the issue is resolved? If so, seek professional help.

Homespun Honolulu: Hawaii’s Votes Really Do Matter: Pretty neat pictures of huge voting lines in the recent Hawaii Democratic Primary. I grew up in Hawaii (so did Obama).

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  • Thank you, my friend, for sharing! It's all about keeping us linked together... no matter how far apart we are!
  • Well, its one aspect of things -- if you freak out, and you have trouble doing work, having a normal relationship with your friends and family ... then yeah. Getting help might not be such a bad thing.

    :)

    Cheers
    t @ dji
    ps love your new design
  • Mike
    Regarding the 'Longtime Mac Users Punished for Loyalty' article: the guy's a whiner, or is truly too poor to afford Tiger (an operating system that came out in 2005 - nearly three years ago), yet somehow can afford a $250 iPod with extra accessories.

    The reason they used to bundle the wall charger and extras for free is because iPod prices used to be higher - Apple was able to drop the price of iPods by selling those things separately.

    If you're buying a brand new device, be it a printer, camera, etc., it's not unreasonable to expect that the equipment you're using it with it was made in the past 7 years (the iMac DV was discontinued in Feb. 2001, and the models below 400 mhz only supported Panther 10.3). He's still using a G4 Cube, WTF? They had a neat design back in the day, but so did the 20th Anniversary Mac. So did the Mac TV. So did many of the old Mac models.

    I never understood those people who opted to skip an entire Mac OS version - those that upgraded to Leopard from Panther (skipping Tiger). For one, how did they avoid compatibility issues? After every Mac OS X release, there's always brand new applications that are made to work only for that OS version. Developers of current applications tend to only support applications running on the latest OS, and the previous version of the OS.

    Whatever - if the cost of the OS is such a big deal to him, he should just pirate it, and be done with it. Jeez. Or, he could buy a computer manufactured within the past three years.

    I bet his next complaint will be that it's hard to find Apple parts for his G4 Cube. It's been out of warranty for nearly four years, c'mon.
  • Mike
    Crap, I think the commenting form might have eaten my comment. :(

    It was a long rant about that guy who bought the iPod - heh, maybe I am addicted to the internet.
  • Mike
    Sorry for the third comment, but in the process of reading her rant, I noticed she mentioned that her car is never turned away from a repair shop. We own an old 1984 Peugeot stationwagon, shortly before Peugeot pulled out of the US entirely. Imagine how hard it is to find a repair shop for a stationwagon with all French parts and a diesel engine...

    Her argument is fundamentally flawed - you can't buy things and expect them to last anymore. And if they do last, that's great...but if they don't, at some point you're going to be expected to buy new stuff to stay compatible. You can't buy movies on VHS tapes anymore, and soon you won't be able to buy DVDs anymore, either. That's just the way it works. It sucks, it really does - imagine how often people have had to buy that Johnny Cash album through vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, and now iTunes (which is inferior to CDs from a technical standpoint).

    What's interesting is that when you buy an album, you're actually buying a license to that album, which is why it's illegal to make more than one copy - when you rebuy an album, you're rebuying the license to that album, plus a physical copy in another format. There's no way to upgrade to the newer format, which is how the recording industry has been able to rip people off for so many years.

    But I digress...heh, sorry for all of the posting, I'll try to spread the comments out over several articles next time. ;)
  • I have wanted one of these forever! THANKS for the great work
  • Mike - speaking of obselete formats, I just made a decision to winnow down my DVD collection. Now that Blu-Ray is upon us I hope I can sell some of these DVDs before they're as worthless as VHS tapes are today.
  • Mike
    Probably a wise decision. If it were me, I'd rip them to H.264 or XviD first, but that's probably illegal, or something. ;)

    Technically, using something like Handbrake (or MacThe Ripper) to break the DVD's encryption scheme is illegal, but the encryption is there to block people's right to fair use.
  • The Angry Journalist page is hysterical. It reminds me very much of a co-worker here who rants non-stop about pretty much anything.
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