Links for November 28, 2006

Anshe Chung: First Virtual Millionaire

Worth a US$1 million, which would be about $257 Linden in Second Life.

Names and IDs

Calls for an Internet Explorer 8 JavaScript wishlist, plus a gotcha with Internet Explorer.

Upcoming Events

Digital Web launches its event calendar.

America’s 10 Best Cities To Live In and Which Ones Are Looking For PHP Developers

A list of top American cities and roughly how big the PHP market is in each one. A follow up to America’s 10 Best Cities To Live In And How They Stack Up For PHP Developers. [Via PHPDeveloper.org]

Carnival of the Mobilists 54

Read the round-up at Fierce Developer.

Google Techtalks

Get some technical edumacation

Informant in shooting says he never bought drugs at house

Regarding the shooting Kathryn Johnston: Why in all hell would you ever base an entire investigation — down to getting a no-knock warrant — on the word of an informant? By nature, they’re shady. How do you think they can get all that dirt? (View a satellite image of Johnston’s home).

Lifehacker Book Preview, Chapter 1: Free up mental RAM

Ideas for getting things done and freeing your brain’s memory.

A Blogger’s Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium

Rather than define blogging, danah looks at the biases each of us brings to our own definitions.

Original Signal relaunch

Ooh! More content. [Via TechCrunch]