Links for Friday September 16^th, 2011

• What was Joss Whedon's involvement with the original Toy Story script?: A pretty good answer to this question on Quora.

• Release day economics: An interesting inside look at how much money indie artists earn from the popular music services of the day.

• New York Times: iPhone announcement in weeks. Yes, we have more.: 9to5Mac appears to have a pretty big iPhone scoop. We should know in a few weeks wether or not this is accurate.

• Sony saddles Vita with expensive, proprietary memory and short battery life: I've been wondering how Sony could make the new PlayStation Vita portable so cheap, and now I know — they are subsidizing the cost by mandating the purchase of proprietary memory sticks.

• Critics call foul as Google takes aim at JavaScript with Dart: Balanced analysis of Google's potential fork of JavaScript from Ryan Paul of Ars Technica. Includes this quote:

  "In several comments, Eich says that NaCl [Google Native Client] and Dart [Google JavaScript replacement] are akin to Microsoft's ActiveX and VBScript—vendor-specific technologies that create lock-in on the Web."

  Ouch.

• Ikea's U.S. factory churns out unhappy workers: This is not cool:

  "Workers complain of eliminated raises, a frenzied pace and mandatory overtime. Several said it's common to find out on Friday evening that they'll have to pull a weekend shift, with disciplinary action for those who can't or don't show up."