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Linked List: September 26, 2005

Monday, 26 September 2005

Off Panel Productions 

From the makers of OK/Cancel — the only web-based comic about UI design and usability — a publishing company dedicate to other niche comics. Exhibit A: Parry and Carney, a comic about paleobiology.

Mac OS X Viruses: Put Up or Shut Up 

Wil Shipley’s is quickly turning into one of my favorite weblogs:

All, right, I’m sick of people reporting that Mac OS X is ‘mostly’ virus-free. It is, as far has been proven, ENTIRELY virus-free. Macs are not magical, and one day there will be virus that infects them. However, I don’t think it’s happened yet, and I think it’s time we, the Mac community, started saying, “No, we don’t have any viruses.”

Seriously, if a reporter asked you, “Hey, do you have herpes?” and you replied, “Nope, I’ve been tested, no herpes, never,” and then they wrote an article with the headline, “Bob Smith: Mostly Herpes-Free,” you would, no doubt, flip (assuming your name was Bob Smith).

New Mac Minis Soon? 

Apple’s documentation regarding the version of Mac OS included with each model Macintosh indicates there’s a “Sept 2005” update to the Mac Mini that ships with Mac OS X 10.4.2 build 8D40; the current publicly-released build of 10.4.2 is 8C46.

Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions 

Terrific overview on dealing with XML in Perl.

The Power of Default Values 

Jakob Nielsen:

How gullible are Web users? Sadly, the answer seems to be “very.”

Motorola CEO: ‘Screw the Nano’ 

Jim Dalrymple reporting for Macworld:

Motorola CEO Ed Zander had some harsh words for the nano in a recent interview.

“Screw the Nano,” said Zander. “What the hell does the Nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs? People are going to want devices that do more than just play music, something that can be seen in many other countries with more advanced mobile phone networks and savvy users,” he said.

Wow, what a dope.