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5 Things The iPhone Could Learn From The iPad
This article answers one of the questions I had about the iPad, namely, file handling in iWork. New iPad applications will be able to indicate that they can support files and then you can drag and drop files for those applications while the iPad is connected to [...]

Four reactions that I agree with (parts of) in response to Apple’s iPad announcement yesterday:

Doc Searls places the iPad in the context of vertical integration (apps all the way down to CPUs) and horizontal playing fields and says, “What you have to appreciate, even admire, is how well Apple plays the vertical game. It’s [...]

Show and Tell: MacMillan’s St. John Passion | Classical Music
Matthew Guerreri’s always satisfying review of the MacMillan Passion.
(tags: macmillan review bso tfc)

Passion « Let’s Call This …
Blog reaction to the MacMillan St. John Passion, with particular notes about the attendance.
(tags: macmillan review tfc bso)

A quick post from the depths of Virginia musical history tonight. As part of a lot of miscellaneous University of Virginia memorabilia I got from eBay recently, I got an unusual item: a University of Virginia songbook that was handed out at football games. (Scans of the whole thing are available on Flickr.)  This particular [...]

Microsoft Finally Gets Around to Fixing 17-Year Old Windows Bug – Bugs – Gizmodo
On the importance of fixing potential security bugs, whether you think they’re exploitable or not.
(tags: microsoft windows security)

James MacMillan, St John Passion: London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, conductor | Berkshire Review for the Arts
Berkshire Review reviews the London Symphony Orchestra premiere [...]

After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP
Nice to see Microsoft start to put some meat in their requests to get users to move off IE6. Now we need to start to see some teeth. Wonder if we could start a movement to actively block IE6 users from getting online until they upgraded, [...]

There’s a fair bit of chatter about the MacMillan St. John Passion, so I thought I’d do a quick roundup. I’ll lead off with three other TFC bloggers, two of whom I’ve already linked, then include a few other notes.

Tenore (Len): Free tickets available. Len writes, “While some of it is tonally challenging and a [...]

Western Swing on 78
Wow. Great resource for western swing downloads.
(tags: music free mp3 westernswing)

When Is Faceted Search Appropriate?
Considerations for using more than just the search box in web interfaces.
(tags: search endeca)

SourceForge.net: Jython: new static analyzer from Google
Google static analysis framework for Python, from a summer intern.
(tags: python java google security staticanalysis)

Make: Online : Secret bar in office
A good project for the day that I have a few extra feet of bookshelf space. Which would be approximately the end of never.
(tags: diy office)

In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity – NYTimes.com
These attacks bring home the importance of tightening the perimeter.
(tags: security china google)

Google Admitting Compromise Good News (Veracode Blog)
The first step to resolving the application security problem is admitting that you have a problem. Bravo, Google.
(tags: security google)

Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
Serious consequences from the hack attack. Linking the malware attack to infiltration of dissidents’ Gmail accounts and Google’s overall China policy suggests that [...]

Design – Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels – NYTimes.com
Great interview with Hoefler & Frere-Jones about typography today.
(tags: typography design fonts web)

Small Caps | The Ministry of Type
I’m with the Ministry of Type on this one. Joe Clark’s rage against small caps is petty, obnoxious, and generally wrong.
(tags: typography design)

It’s that time of year again. My colleagues and I in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus have put away our Holiday Pops scores in preparation for tackling more sublime repertoire. This upcoming concert, the US premier of James Macmillan’s St. John Passion, a joint commission by the BSO and the London Symphony in honor of Sir [...]

Udder Madness : The New Yorker
A Woody Allen short, with flavors of Poe and Dostoyevsky, where the protagonist is a homicidal cow.
(tags: woodyallen funny)

Typotheque: Gore’s choice
Nice story on how readability has to trump elegance. The crystal goblet wins again.
(tags: algore typography fonts politics funny)

Tuper Tario Tros.
Super Mario Bros. meets Tetris. Awesome game, though the context [...]

Password generation via a free app and built-in OS X tool – Mac OS X Hints
Useful little application to get passwords anywhere. Now if I could only sync my Mac’s keychain to my PC at work…
(tags: macosx)

Spoon, a Band Acclaimed but Still Unrecognized – NYTimes.com
Good profile of one of the finer bands of the decade.
(tags: [...]

I’m going through the backlog of blog posts I have about Club history and translating them into articles on the new Virginia Glee Club Wiki. It’s going to take a while, but slowly but surely things are getting filled in. This week I created new articles on J. A. Morrow and the Virginia Music Festival [...]