No Labs Love for Google Apps. This domain’s e‐mail account is hosted by Google Apps — and I use Mail.app to read my e‐mail — so the fact that GApps seems to be branched off from all the cool Gmail features is an annoyance for me, too. Good to hear that someone’s trying to fix it.
Category: Links
MasterCard, what are you thinking? How on earth will you reproduce this logo on a credit card, on a fax, on a standard‐def television screen? Did you take this as valuable advice, rather than as the parody it so clearly was?
Sean Tevis, the “xkcd” candidate for Kansas state representative, lost by 4%. Sucks. But, as he points out, he outperformed Obama in his own district, and outperformed Democrats in adjacent districts. I have a feeling he’s not done with politics just yet.
New developer features in Internet Explorer 8. Some of these are new to beta 2, most notably the mutable DOM prototypes and JavaScript getters/setters. I’d known the former had been coming, but the latter is a pleasant and total surprise.
The SXSW 2009 Panel Picker is live. If you attended our Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel and enjoyed it — or if you missed our Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel and would move heaven and earth to get a chance to undo the biggest mistake of your life — then give large numbers of stars to More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries, our follow‐up panel. Thanks to John Resig for taking the initiative (once again).
As he passes on the reins of At The Movies, Roger Ebert fondly remembers Gene Siskel (the Waldorf to his Statler). “Did Gene and I hate each other? Yes. Did we love each other? Yes.” The hilarious YouTube videos at the bottom of his post were discussed on MetaFilter a while back; some focus on the vitriol, but I prefer to see the begrudging friendship and mutual respect. By including the videos on the page, Ebert shows he feels the same way.
The audio from the Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel has finally been posted on the SXSW web site! John Resig has the slides if you want to follow along.
Steven Frank, co‐author of Transmit: Don’t use FTP. Finally someone says it! FTP is a crazy, insecure non‐protocol, and the fact that it’s still used has more to do with ubiquity than any sort of merit. SFTP piggybacks on all the security of SSH and is much easier to work with. WordPress has a great feature that automatically upgrades your installed plugins — but only on FTP, not SFTP.
Brand New looks at the Hornets’ logo tweak. Scroll down to the comments section to see their secondary logo — it’s exceedingly clever, co‐opts some New Orleans iconography (the primary logo dates back to the Charlotte era), and kicks the primary logo’s ass. The Saints’ fleur de lis logo represents an era when a team’s logo could be unapologetically abstract. (The bigger news is the slight color change; I’m looking forward to seeing the new uniforms.)
Quoth Michael Arrington: “Kind of takes the air out of the balloon when you can’t get them riled up.” In other words: the answer is still yes.