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Linked List: April 6, 2006

Thursday, 6 April 2006

Joyful JavaScript ★: My friend Luke Crawford on the joys of programming JavaScript using Prototype.
Lance Ulanoff Is a Moron ★: Brian Tiemann rips apart PC Magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff’s silly argument that Boot Camp portends Apple turning into a Windows PC maker.
Boot Camp and the PC War ★: Nick Carr totally gets it:

I think that’s the reason the Apple’s stock price has shot up nearly 20% since the Boot Camp announcement yesterday. It’s not that Apple may be able to expand its general market share by a couple of percentage points; it’s that those percentage points are likely to represent many of the most attractive customers in the market.
Das Boot Camp ★: I thought about using this pun, mainly because I love Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot. Anyway, if you want more interesting analysis on Boot Camp and virtualization, Khoi Vinh has it.
Cabel Sasser: Boot Camp First Look: Half-Life 2 Video + More ★: Cabel Sasser:

Upon hearing about Boot Camp here at Panic Labs, we immediately and excitedly downloaded, installed, and documented, and by “we” I mean “me, while everybody else in the office did actual work”. Here’s what I found.
What’s New in Python 2.5 ★: Python 2.5a1 is out, with a bunch of new syntax constructs and a few additional standard library items (including SQLite, which is sort of turning into a standard module everywhere, and deservedly so). The Rails phenomenon has catapulted Ruby ahead of Python in publicity, but Python still strikes this Perl programmer as an intriguing language.
Death to ‘User-Generated Content’ ★: Derek Powazek:

So let’s not give in to the buzzphrase du jour. Let’s use the real words. Those people posting to Amazon pages? They’re writing reviews. Those folks on Flickr? They’re making photographs. And if we must have an umbrella term to describe the whole shebang, I have a suggestion. Try this on for size: Authentic Media.