Linked List: August 18, 2007

Saturday, 18 August 2007

Mike Lee: ‘How I Became a Programmer’ ★: Best story I’ve read in a long time. Jackpot, indeed.
The Talk Show, Episode 6 ★: Dan Benjamin and yours truly, talking about the new Apple keyboard, iMovie ’08, Stanley Kubrick, and more. Check out our page at the iTunes Store for a taste of our upcoming graphics and branding.
Windows Virtual Machine Performance on the Mac ★: CNet benchmarks show VMware Fusion beating Parallels Desktop handily at multimedia tasks. (Via Paul Stamatiou.)
Worst Rip Ever ★: Template site steals design from Cork’d and doesn’t even bother to remove corkd.com markup — they just commented it out.
The Baseball Test for Journalists ★: Bernard Yomtov, in the comments on Brad DeLong’s journal:

A reporter should not be assigned to cover subject X unless he has as good an understanding of X as a baseball writer is expected to have of baseball.