Sci-Fi Hi-Fi

Last week, Fraser Speirs posted Apple’s “Meet the Engineers Behind Tiger” page to his del.icio.us links. In what has proven to be an interesting study of the social power of del.icio.us, I then posted the same page to my own del.icio.us links, not so much because I wanted to bookmark it, but rather so that I could add the comment “Someone should make trading cards!” to the URL’s del.icio.us history. Since then, I have had one person contact me with a proposal to actually print some, and Martin Pittenauer actually went to the trouble (using Interface Builder no less!) of mocking up a series of “Magic: The Gathering”-style cards.

Like any good game, MAP’s cards have some tricky surprises. For example, you might think that Bertrand Serlet, the dread lord of OS-related software development at Apple, would be darn near unbeatable. But you’d be wise not to underestimate the might of Spotlight czar Yan Arrouye, who packs a +100 “Find Stuff” punch (not to mention the ability to summon Dominic Giampaolo at will).

Who knows–perhaps some enterprising soul will organize a “Battle of the Tiger Engineers” tournament for WWDC this year? I’ll provide the 12-sided dice.

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