Friday afternoon reading and listening
Rebecca MacKinnon asks, "What did Yahoo! know and when did they know it?"
Brian Aker recommends High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers.
Joel Spolsky: "Sandboxes are penalty boxes; they're slow and they suck, which is why Java Applets are dead, dead, dead." -- Strategy Letter VI. (Google might be a step ahead of this one, though, with Google Web Toolkit. We'll see.)
Val Henson talks about the Linux filesystem of the future.
Andrew Cowie on online voice community: "I have long observed that people in the Open Source movement spend far too much time conversing with each other by IRC, instant messenger, or on widely subscribed email lists when they could just pick up the phone and actually talk to each other."