Linked List: March 8, 2005

Tuesday, 8 March 2005

With Flash Walkman, Sony Takes on iPod Shuffle ★

Reuters:

The cheapest models, which come with a 256MB flash memory chip, will start at $90 and run up to about $200. The electronics conglomerate hopes that pricing will address complaints that its products are overpriced.

Fat chance of that, given that you can buy an iPod Shuffle with twice the storage for only $99. Apple is just kicking Sony’s ass here.

[Updated March 9: The wire services originally reported the 256 MB Walkman was going to cost $132, not $90. Here’s the correction from the AP. These new flash-memory Walkmen still compare poorly against the iPod Shuffle, however.]

Mike Davidson: How to Snatch an Expiring Domain ★

Great story about how to nab an existing domain name that has expired.

Developing With Core Image ★

New Apple developer article on Tiger’s Core Image APIs. Via James Duncan Davidson, who wrote the article.

Philip Greenspun on the Average Length of a Web Forum Posting ★

425 characters. Or at least that’s the case for 10 years of postings to photo.net. Greenspun wrote the query in three lines of SQL, which led to this interesting aside:

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I’ve seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.