Linked List: October 10, 2007

Wednesday, 10 October 2007

Pogue Reviews the Palm Centro ★: David Pogue:

Palm hoped that by trimming the Treo’s size and price, it would create a totally different product, a new crossover phone for people who have never before owned phones with alphabet keys. (By Palm’s reckoning, that’s 95 percent of cellphone buyers.)

But here’s the funny thing: the strategy works.
Southwest Airlines Modifies Boarding Pass Policy ★: The numbered boarding passes are a fair change, and should eliminate the silly lines at the gate. But it’s hard to believe a major airline produced something designed like this. It looks like the rules for a Girl Scouts troop.
New York Times Photo From Iraq ★: If the photo accompanying this story doesn’t move you, you’re not hooked up right. Saw it on the front page of The Times while I was in line at Starbucks today, and couldn’t stop staring at it.
Engadget Report on iPhone/iPod Touch 1.1.1 Jailbreak Effort ★: So there’s a buffer overflow in MobileSafari’s TIFF handling code that can be exploited to execute code with root privileges. And we’re supposed to treat this as good news? (Hint: it’s actually a security vulnerability.)
ZFS Hater Redux ★: Drew Thaler with another interesting, informative volley in the ZFS debate.
Darth Vader Being a Jerk ★: Scene from George Lucas’s upcoming “Even More Special Special Edition” cut of The Empire Strikes Back. (Thanks to Dan Benjamin, who claims Vader’s behavior reminds him of me.)
Confessions of a Twitter Convert ★: Adam Engst:

I’m eating a hearty meal of crow (roasted, with garlic and rosemary) today, since I’m here to tell you how interesting and downright useful I’ve found Twitter to be since being turned onto it properly at the C4 conference in August. My initial reaction to Twitter was that it was utterly inane […]
Around We Go ★: Political commentary by way of Venn diagram. (Thanks to Steve Kalkwarf.)
iPhone Lawsuit Web Site ★: The stock photos let you know just how serious they are.
Markdown in Nu ★: Very cool work from Grayson Hansard — a port of Markdown to Nu. (He also ported SmartyPants.)
Catalog Choice ★: Splendid idea: a non-profit, free service whose objective is to reduce the 19 billion paper catalogs that are produced and mailed annually to US consumers.
Yankees to Debate on Future of Torre ★: Maybe they’re listening to me.