Episode 98: 98: Hardware Machismo

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