Episode 98: 98: Hardware Machismo Hypercritical

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on taping out silicon chips, Apple's seemingly bottomless silicon ambitions, and the pitfalls of labeling people, then discuss Twitterrific 5, the new Google maps app on iOS, iTunes 11, Tim Cook's national news tour, and Apple's upcoming "Made in the USA" Mac.


Links for this episode:
How to use rlwrap to get a command history in sql*plus - Lutz Hartmann
How To Tell People They Sound Racist - YouTube
Innovation is a Fight - Rands In Repose
Rands - Wikipedia
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race - TEDxHampshireCollege
A comment on The new age of Capital Intensity - Asymco.com
NBC's Rock Center interview with Tim Cook - Part 1
NBC's Rock Center interview with Tim Cook - Part 2
Google Maps for iPhone shows Apple how to do mapping right - Ars Technica
iTunes 11 review: Simple is as simple does - Ars Technica
iTunes through the ages - Ars Technica
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Brian Williams: “Don’t bet against us.” - Ars Technica
Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks - Businessweek
OpenStreetMap
Twitterrific 5
Jeff Foster
Kitsune: Efficient, General-purpose Dynamic Software Updating for C (PDF)
Muir Island - Wikipedia
Kremlinology - Wikipedia
Hypercritical T-Shirt Poll
For Apple, change could be a good sign - Jason Snell
Text of Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address (2005)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs at D8: The Full, Uncut Interview - AllThingsD
Apple's "Made in USA" computer likely to be Mac Pro - Philip Elmer-DeWitt
The Pipeline #23: John Siracusa
The Setup / John Siracusa