links for 2008-04-23

Stupid arguement, of course it would be far better if women couldn’t divorce ever or they couldn’t work for the environment. Seriously does this guy even think his arguement makes any rational sense. Logical not really, but is it rational, most certainly

Why can’t parent’s select what programs a child can or can’t see? Don’t we have stations that are devoted to family programming? Call it for what it is, it’s punishing networks for playing content that there customers wish to see. That’s censorship in my

Once again Middle Easter society proves to be ahead of Western society back in the day. This has always been something that has puzzled me why the Middle East once on top in terms of arts and sciences was replaced by Western society.

Once again buy DRM’d music and if they ever decide to shut it down you are out of luck legally.

This is a cool experiment, predicting mistakes before we make them.

Yet another reason to either encrypt your important data or to not carry it on your laptop.

A pretty good arguement for Microsoft to open source some of their software. Man if IE was open sourced, imagine how many web developers would be working immediately to improve the rendering engine.

I don’t think it’s right for the government to try and influence those who present themselves as independent to the media and public. The government has public relations people to present their side of a decision. However it doesn’t shock me that this is

Some good and solid business strategy. Make something new and push it out there, repeat and keep your competitors reacting to you rather than the reverse.

This looks sorta interesting. Mesh at it’s most basic will synch files across multiple systems, which would be nice.

Good little intro to getting started to using RoR. Really should play around with it at some point when I have the time.