Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/15/10
The Internet was kind this week, bestowing upon us some fine hypertext products way better than pictures of cats with brutalized English captions. Because you’re busy and have other things to do than scour the underbelly (not that underbelly) of the Internet, I have collected the highlights below for you to enjoy over the weekend.
Serious Eats debunks the top 6 food myths (pasta must be cooked in massive amounts of boiling water, etc.). I’ll be the first to admit that some of these came as news to me.
Three weeks into my Android experiment (versus the iPhone, in particular), I’m coming to agree with MG Siegler’s blog post entitled Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I’d Like To Punch The Carriers With. Say what you want about Apple’s App Store, but some level of gatekeeping is required to keep user experience high. Android is open, but the carriers don’t see this as a virtue. They see it as an opening to take that openness, brand it, and create their own proprietary OS with bloatware, i.e. the same carrier-wars junk we suffered through in years past.
How strong incumbent companies lose to scrappy upstarts.
Think typography is easy? Think again: the level of attention to detail that goes into a font is staggering, in some cases mind-boggling. Here’s a description of the level of detail that goes into Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ fonts (which are industry benchmarks, by the way).
In the mood for a good game? Try Canvas Rider – it’s like Line Rider, but written entirely in JavaScript + HTML5 and making heavy use of <CANVAS> element. Has community-created levels, too.
Here’s a slideshow created by Google about the ‘interesting things’ on the ‘creative internet’. Created in Google Docs, this is an indoctrination into creative web culture. Awesome stuff (and will keep you busy for a long time).
Have a good weekend, everyone.
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