- 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…
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5 replies on “Links for 2006-01-18”
There’s another view on the intel vs G5 boot times here
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.
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
yeah seconded, no way does my iMac g5 take that long to load!
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.