Linkology: Friday Links for 12/11/09
Skipped our Friday Links feature last Friday in favor of a silly quiz, so we
have some catching up to do.
- Got (good) milk? You almost certainly don’t. Warren Taylor is out to change that.
- Dragon Dictation for the iPhone is has been released (free for a limited time), and it’s nothing short of amazing. I particularly like Jeff Richardson’s summary:
“Simply dictate a message to your iPhone and, almost instantly, your voice is transcribed with amazing accuracy. With one tap you can send the transcription to an e-mail. You can dictate a message to your iPhone a heck of a lot faster than you can tap a message on the iPhone keyboard, even if you are a good iPhone typist, so with Dragon Dictation you can save a lot of time writing messages or other text. And for a limited time, this amazing app is free. All I can say is, wow.”
- Cormac McCarthy’s one and only typewriter, an Olivetti Lettera 32 he found at a pawn shop for $50 in 1963, sold at an auction for $254,500. So what will he write on next? A brand new Olivetti Lettera 32. (Via DF)
- Here is a comprehensive analysis of the seven prongs of human behavior con artists exploit, including many examples of known cons. There is also a Cliffs Notes version. (Via Kottke)
- The best-designed corporate blog I’ve ever seen: the new Panic Blog, from Panic Inc. Absolutely stunning.
- Target is turning point-of-sale performance into a game in order to speed things up and pit cashiers against one another in friendly competition. Check out the screenshot and don’t miss the comments from an actual Target employee.
- Now that Favrd has closed down, my new favorite sites to track the most-favorited tweets is Tweeteorites.
- As a DSLR nerd with increasing photographic aspirations, I really want one of these LumaLoop SLR camera straps. A great gift for the camera geek in your circle.
- And finally, All That, perhaps the last ‘new’ story from David Foster Wallace you’ll ever see. Savor it. I did.
More next week. As for now, I’m off to Amazon’s stupidly-good system of draining money from my wallet for some serious, high-test holiday gift buying. Go me.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
