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Linked List: December 27, 2004

Monday, 27 December 2004

Child’s Play Part II ★

Sequel to last year’s similar article, wherein 10- and 11-year old kids skewer classic video games from the ’80s and ’90s. Included in this year’s games: Adventure, Galaga (the kids can’t believe that no matter how far you’ve progressed, you can’t continue after losing your last life), and my personal all-time favorite video game, the Star Wars arcade coin-op. I hate these kids. (Via Kottke.)

XMLHttpRequest for the Masses ★

Drew McLellan on XMLHttpRequest, the client-side JavaScript API that allows for scripting access to HTTP requests. This is the underlying mechanism behind Google Suggests, for example. (See also: WHATWG’s draft documentation.)