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Linked List: October 1, 2005

Saturday, 1 October 2005

Terrific essay from Tim O’Reilly to kick off next week’s Web 2.0 Conference. (Which I’ll be attending, by the way.)

Tim Bray reports from the OpenOffice.org Conference that they’re scrapping their current Mac OS X ports — an X11 version that’s, well, an X11 app, and an ever-so-slightly more Mac-like Java app that is slow and lags behind the OpenOffice state-of-the-art — and are going to do a true Mac app in Cocoa.

But we’ve heard this before — I called “vaporware” on the native Mac version of OpenOffice over two years ago.

New York Times Story on ‘The Shining’ Trailer Remix ★

This is great: Robert Ryang, the young film editor’s assistant who put together the gag remix of “The Shining”, has hit the big-time.

Feed Splicing in Perl ★

Ben Trott’s XML::Feed now lets you splice multiple RSS and Atom feeds together into a single Atom feed. (Month-old news that I didn’t notice until now.)