links for 2008-04-14

Coolest error message ever.

Good arguments as to why websites should support OpenID, though only from the viewpoint of the end user rather than the website owner.

Can the community around a person/blog be sold. Will the community just as easily leave as stay?

Arrington responds to Ethan Kaplan’s post on a new approach to music.

Asks how should art be valued. Looks at the government as the solution. Bad solution the minute the government get’s involved in the creation and distribution of art. Makes for a difficult time for artists who may attack the government or the culture unde

Bill Gate’s seriously moved Washington to do something. Wow I’m thoroughly impressed.

How IT shops can end like the Dead Sea, a worthless part of your company.

The new form of a press release developed for the social media envirnoment developing in our world.

Using Google AppEngine to host small pieces of a much larger project.

Apple added a new feature to their website today. Rather than just a simple textual drop-down for providing on the fly search results. Apple also provides a brief product description along with a photo of the product. It looks really nice.

YouTorrent decides to only index legal torrents as it puts itself on sale. I really like YouTorrent, but with all those torrents gone what is the use of YouTorrent?

Awesome, time to go back and redownload videos.

Virgin Media CEO says that they are already doing deals with several internet sites to provide differing levels of service for those who pay extra for faster service.

Interesting little bit about a scientist having computers write basic books on obscure subjects. The program has also written poetry, crossword puzzles and is starting to work on romance novels.

Good background information on what we know about Saturn’s rings.

New York has passed a budget that now tries to enforce sales tax being paid on goods bought online. Personally I don’t see that working all that well. I have no idea how long it would take to list all the goods I buy online. Now a days that is just about

Open source and free software have become better alternatives to proprietary software. In some cases the free alternatives have become better than the software that costs money, think MySQL, Firefox, etc. It used to be that to use software that didn’t cos

This is so funny and informative all at the same time.

The super rich are doing fine why aren’t you?

Research demonstrated that scientists could see the brain make a decision before the decision was realized by the person, crazy.