links for 2008-04-18

$100 Billion has been added to the banks and loan companies to keep them solvent since the housing bubble burst and the credit crunch started occurring. Wow no matter how you feel about the government bailing out these companies that is a ton of money.

In the UK cars drove around and possibly in the case of one car over a cyclist who fell when struck.

What happens when everyone tries to escape being labeled as average.

Hey new research, being rich does in fact make you happier.

Pretty good defense of some standard attacks against there being an afterlife.

The use of mobile phones in Palestinian culture to get around cultural norms of having an intimate dating relationship.

New website for programmers done by Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky. Looks to be really interesting.

Google reminds us how to move from one domain to a new one.

Thanks AT&T our high schools welcome the money. It does seem odd that high schools even though supposed to be a government service don’t have enough money and instead get extra funding through donations like this.

Hmm this seems one of those both good and bad decisions. Good move by Pay-Pal to limit the hazards of phishing campaigns but at the same time Safari users (one the browsers potentially banned) are quite vocal. Also discriminating against potential and cur

So what happens why you die in real life, your online profile stays up for who knows how long.

Recent study comes out that says that divorce is an expensive proposition for taxpayers. However freakonomics did a study that showed how the conclusions of the study were wrong.