Linked List: January 24, 2009

Saturday, 24 January 2009

Guardian Interview With Andy Hertzfeld ★: Nice little video interview with Andy Hertzfeld on the Mac’s 25th anniversary. He shows the prototype motherboard he used to write the device drivers for System 1.0.
Pirating the 2009 Oscars ★: Speaking of Andy Baio, his annual analysis of bootleg distribution of Oscar-nominated films is out.
OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript ★: John Resig explains how a captcha solver written entirely in JavaScript by Shaun Friedle works. Good illustration of how programming is often just about breaking hard problems into a series of smaller, simpler problems. It’s extremely clever code. (Via Andy Baio.)