Friday Links IX

14 April 2007

Friday links is yet again being posted on Saturday – sorry folks. This time it would be because yesterday my MacBook (which I’ve written about before) went tits up again. This time it just seems to be the hard disk which has gone south, but 2 HDs in the space of a year is really trying my patients – luckily I’ve learned since last time so was pretty much backed up, but still…

Anyway, on to the links:

Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion – This is a major loss for Microsoft, and a huge win for Google. They really are a huge forced to be reckoned with – even more so then Microsoft.

Hicksdesign: The National – Fake Empire / Ben Ward on Twitter / Steve Marshal on Twitter – The experiment in progress.

Josh Keyes: Paintings – some of these are really quite lovely.

Mac OS X Theme Change in Leopard Seed 9A410 – This is so very, very obviously not what the final version is going to look like. What it does indicated, though, is that Apple might finally be moving towards one unified theme (as opposed to brushed metal vs unified vs aqua).

WMG Sends Mixed MP3 Message – do they have a clue about what they’re doing? I’m sure we’ll see then offering DRM free tracks on iTunes soon enough anyway, so why bother messing around like this?

From: Articles

14 April 2007