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Linked List: July 14, 2006

Friday, 14 July 2006

Easily Mispronounced Domain Names 

Unintentionally funny domains.

Movable Type 3.3 

Remember when new versions of Movable Type were a big deal?

SSP on I Use This 

Sven-S. Porst’s insightful review of I Use This, the new “here are the apps I use” community-powered web site.

iLounge: Nike + iPod Sport Kit First Look 

Extensive review of the Nike + iPod Sport Kit by Jeremy Horwitz.

Engadget: Microsoft’s Media Player Dubbed Zune 

Engadget report on the upcoming Microsoft-branded iPod rival; includes link to this post with a photo of a supposed prototype.

IBM’s Cell Processor Yields Looking Dismal 

Tom Krazit:

IBM Vice President of Semiconductor and Technology Services Tom Reeves was quoted in an article on Electronic News last week saying that initial yields for the Cell chip are somewhere between 10 percent to 20 percent. The company thinks it can improve that with logic redundancy techniques, but even 20 percent to 40 percent is still a shocking number in the world of high-volume chip manufacturing.

Via MDJ 2006.07.14; MDJ points out that IBM’s track record producing PowerPC chips has been dismal overall — rememember the “3.0 GHz next year” promise regarding G5s?

Symantec Security Response Weblog: Mac OS X: Viruses and Security 

Very nice: an honest, accurate overview of the state of Mac OS X security from Symantec’s Todd Woodward:

As I tell my internal and external customers alike, just because there are no file-infecting viruses that can affect Mac OS X now, that doesn’t mean there won’t be a really nasty one released in the next five minutes. The likelihood of that happening is comparatively low and could be debated ad nauseam, but as Benjamin Franklin said: “A little neglect may breed great mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.”

(Via Bryan Powell via email.)

Daring Fireball T-Shirt on Food Network’s ‘Bobby Flay’s Throwdown’ 

DF member Josh Dickens wore his classic DF shirt — looking classy with a blazer — to a taping of the Food Network’s “Bobby Flay’s Throwdown” and got on the air. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if you’re going to appear in the national media, you’ll look your best in a DF t-shirt.

Note to Bill Gates: I’ll Take Your Bet, for $10,000. 

Wil Shipley offers to bet Bill Gates $10,000 at 3-to-1 odds that Windows Vista won’t ship by January.