Crazy me

Learned something this morning from Wikipedia:

A truncated version of the "Crazy Ones" text has been reused in Mac OS X Leopard on the high-resolution icon for TextEdit.

Sure enough, here's the icon:

TextEdit icon

I came across this in a roundabout way. In comments on my earlier post about YoruFukurou (the desktop Twitter client I use), someone asked if it provides a way to find and follow people. I tested by searching for the name "Mike Morton", which turned up mentions of Mike's blog posts about WWDC. On Day 1 he writes:

Everyone got a nice "WWDC 11" sweatshirt. I’m giving mine to my friend Andy, who’s crazy enough that he flew all the way from New York to San Francisco despite having no ticket for the conference. (Andy was not crazy enough to wake up and join us for hours in line, though.)

I'm the crazy Andy. I wanted to reply with something about "Here's to the crazy ones…" and wanted to get the quote right. Hence the Wikipedia discovery.

Thanks, Mike, for the great sweatshirt!

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