links for 2007-05-27

• GM dealers offer Toyota test drives – CNN.com
  General Motors is asking Saturn dealers to have one or more of the competing models in the showroom so customers can look at it, sit in it and drive it.
  (tags: innovation marketing statelessmarketing)
• The Work of Jonathan Harris
  artist. technologist. meddler.
  (tags: academic algorithm application architecture art visualization design)
• Digg – Dell explains Linux to non-technical users
  Well, sort of. On the StudioDell site where they have all their DellTV-ish howtos and infos, they’ve got a new 5 minute video called: “Linux 101: What’s all the Fuss?”
  (tags: dell linux video)
• What is reCAPTCHA?
  reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher.
  (tags: ai archive business collaboration brilliant security technology programming ocr)
• 4 AJAX Training and Implementation Documents – Intelligentedu.com Free Computer Training Blogs
  Here are 4 AJAX Training and Implementation Documents that will give you a greater understanding of AJAX and demonstrate how to implement applications using it and how to migrate your web applications to this technology.
  (tags: ajax javascript reference tutorial)
• PHP vs Java vs Ruby
  “One way or another we all have to integrate.”
  (tags: analysis article comparison java ruby php rubyonrails development programming)
• Variety: EA sells movie rights to ‘The Sims’ | CNET News.com
  Maybe they can call it The Sims: The Movie. Electronic Arts has sold the movie rights for The Sims, the best-selling computer game of all time, to 20th Century Fox, Variety said Friday.
  (tags: movie rights game sims ea c20fox)
• I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Final Days of Google | PBS
  “The founders of the next Google are eating yellowtail tonight”
  (tags: analysis business google technology management microsoft startup innovation)