Month: May 2008

  • links for 2008-05-30

    Revision3: Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 Rev3 was taken offline by MediaDefender, basically an outlet for the RIAA and MPAA to combat bittorent sites. (tags: bittorrent security networks revision3 business dos hacking mediadefender) BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nature loss ‘to hurt global poor’ Wow, 6-8% of GDP lost mostly affecting the poor. (tags: […]

  • links for 2008-05-29

    Google Gets Fancy With Google I/O TShirts. Too Fancy Google has major egg on their face. (tags: binary google stupid tshirts) The Canadian Press: Ultra-tight ticket security gets ready for Beijing Olympic ceremonies Okay then didn’t realize my ticket needed my e-mail address or passport information. (tags: olympics china security privacy passport email) BBC NEWS […]

  • links for 2008-05-28

    YouTube – Video Games and Sex Really good talk about video games and sex. (tags: videogames sexual youtube video) Live From All Things Digital: Gates and Ballmer Preview Windows 7 Hopefully better than Vista has turned out. (tags: windows microsoft software demo) Ajaxian » Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s […]

  • links for 2008-05-27

    President Bush Signs Landmark Genetic Nondiscrimination Information Act Into Law (tags: health law politics genetics privacy) Techdirt: ‘Give It Away And Pray’ Isn’t A Business Model… But It Doesn’t Mean That ‘Free’ Doesn’t Work The counter to recent complaints about giving away stuff for free on the internet doesn’t work. (tags: business economics marketing opensource […]

  • links for 2008-05-26

    Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap – NYTimes.com Surving in New York on a small salary. (tags: career frugal culture newyork youth financial) great video from Mark Pesce about twitter .. Really good talk about the communication changes occuring via the internet and how we are becoming Hyperconnected […]

  • links for 2008-05-25

    No Schedules, No Meetings–Enter Best Buy’s ROWE | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss This looks interesting. (tags: business career productivity management) Jeremy Toeman’s LIVEdigitally » Blog Archive » Lifecasting may well lead us to Crime 2.0 (tags: crime web2.0 lifestreams) gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: word-of-mouth is not created “Word […]

  • links for 2008-05-24

    Ajaxian » Soft-hyphens and inline-block; Subtleties in Firefox 3 RC 1 Some neat new features in FF 3 for CSS developers. (tags: webdesign webdevelopment css firefox) BBC NEWS | Americas | ‘Tunnel’ links New York to London This is kinda cool. (tags: art uk usa newyork london)

  • links for 2008-05-23

    Ariel Waldman » Blog Archive » Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service (tags: twitter tos ethics business harassment culture law) YouTube – Conjunction Junction Conjunction Junction, what’s your function? Relive your school days. (tags: video english humor) Feminist Daily News 5/22/2008: Appeals Court Reinstates Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Lawsuit Reason is pretty sound, all […]

  • links for 2008-05-22

    FT.com / In depth – Moody’s error gave top ratings to debt products Right just a software glitch, that’s all it was. (tags: programming software financial economics) Schneier on Security: BlackBerry Giving Encryption Keys to Indian Government Crud, this sets a really bad precdent. (tags: security privacy blackberry) BBC NEWS | Health | Trust drug […]

  • links for 2008-05-21

    YouTube – Giant LEGO Boulder What is awesome Indy being chased down the street by a giant Lego Boulder. (tags: legos humor video youtube indianajones) YouTube – Facebook Gangsta (tags: facebook youtube humor video) Pharyngula: Creationists in the American classroom “At least 16% of our high school teachers are young earth creationists. “ (tags: education […]