Linked List: August 25, 2008

Monday, 25 August 2008

A Tale of Two Tetrises ★: Jason Snell on Tris and Tetris and the little things, like fast launch times, that make a big difference with casual iPhone games.
Tris ★: Noah Witherspoon is pulling his free Tetris clone Tris from the App Store under pressure from The Tetris Company, who own the Tetris copyright. The official iPhone Tetris from EA costs $10 and takes 30 seconds to launch.
The Birth of a Faster Monkey ★: Mike Shaver announcing TraceMonkey, the next-generation JavaScript engine for Firefox. The preliminary benchmarks are stunning.
John Nack on ‘Dear Adobe’ ★: Adobe’s John Nack on “Dear Adobe”, a site where users file their own one-liner gripes about Adobe. Adobe’s problems are real, but at least they’re listening and have a sense of humor about it. There is no one at Apple in a position to respond like Nack has to an equivalent “Dear Apple” site.
YouTube Comment Snob ★: Firefox extension that filters YouTube comments based on grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Via Andy Baio, who has a screenshot demonstrating the results.