Links for Sunday August 21^st, 2011

• Scott Adams Blog: Windows Phone Challenge Results: Two points: Scott tested an iPhone 3GS, which is over two years old at this point, against a Windows Phone that came out late last year. Second point: the Windows Phone was running version 7.5, which isn't available yet to your average consumer. So, Microsoft definitely stacked the deck in it's favor on this one.

• HP: What Léo Apotheker’s Decisions Mean: Jean-Louis Gassée breaks down exactly how HP screwed up on Thursday. It wasn't so much what they announced (it might make sense for HP to get out of making PCs and webOS devices), but the way that they announced it. I expect HP stock to be in the toilet for quite awhile.

• Pixar Announces New Dinosaur and Inside-the-Mind Movies at D23: Looks like there is some pretty cool stuff coming from Pixar.

• New AT&T texting plans: unlimited or nothing:

  "From regular data plans, such as AT&T's $25 for 2GB data plan, the company pulls in about a millionth of a cent per byte. At that rate, a single 140-byte message would cost about 0.0002¢, meaning customers would have to send 11 million text messages to make AT&T's $20 texting plan a money-losing proposition for the telecom giant. The average American teenager—the most avid texting demographic—sends an average of 3,339 texts per month, or 58¢ worth of regular data charges. The other $19.42, you're paying for the messages to send and arrive reliably and immediately."

  Are you feeling ripped off yet?