Atomic Playboy

These are links I found interesting for 26/01 through 30/01:

• GlimmerBlocker — pAd blocker for Safari implemented as a non-intrusive proxy./p
• Noscope | Journal | Extra Image Tags Plugin — pThis is a very minimalistic WordPress plugin, which finds all images you insert into your posts, and wrap them in extra 's, so you can style the hell out of them./p
• The $300 Million Button — p”It's hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. What was even worse: the designers of the site had no clue there was even a problem.”/p
• Cops Talk Funny — p”From recruits in academies to senior officers and command staff, you talk funny when you take the stand. Is it in the water at the academies; is there a secret society where you're taught this special language?”/p
• Videogames outsell DVD and Blu-ray in 2008 — pRetail sales of videogames overtook that of DVD and Blu-ray for the first time, as sales of packaged media grew 6 per cent worldwide to hit USD 61 billion in 2008, according to Media Control GfK International./p

These are links I found interesting for January 25th through January 26th:

• Applescript support in Adium 1.2 and later — pAppleScript reference for hooks in Adium./p
• AppleScript Language Guide: Introduction to AppleScript Language Guide — pThis document is a guide to the AppleScript language—its lexical conventions, syntax, keywords, and other elements. It is intended primarily for use with AppleScript 2.0 or later and Mac OS X version 10.5 or later./p

The Dictionary application in OS X is just plain gorgeous with its typography.

Various user interface graphics by Susan Kare, who has done (among others) the famous icons for early Mac, Windows 3.0, OS/2 Warp and more modern icons such as the icons used in Gnome. And don’t miss the cute t-shirts with her icons. Moof!

(I’m starting to feel like MeFi…)

Looks sweet. Works on my G3 233MHz, albeit it won’t be breaking any speed records. But at least it’s up and running. Netnewswire Lite is the news aggregator for OSX, although it doesn’t appear to want to import OPML data.

The mail client looks really good. I’ll be using it for a while instead of my procmail/spamprobe/mutt routine and see how it works out.