Month: May 2008

2.99 Gas – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog Chrysler has a new program that guartnees 2.99 a gallon gas for new owners of Chrylser cars, amazing idea. (tags: chrysler cars economics gas business) Dumbest Generation? Is this dumbest generation, Eric Burke takes on that question and wins. (tags: education youth) Feministing: Yogurt: […]

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » If pigs could fly A tale of an airline’s stupidity and bad customer service. (tags: customerservice airlines) Cognitive Daily: Perceived moral blame can change the memory of a crime Interesting research into how we perceive someone can change our attitude towards them in terms of accountabiliaty towards a crime. (tags: […]

Cell Phone Spying: Is Your Life Being Monitored? How easy it is to spy on someone’s cell phone. (tags: security privacy phone cellphone) Schneier on Security: Tourists, Not Terrorists Yet another overzealous scared public recating stupidly and the police helping them act retarted. (tags: security tourism travel terrorism) A VC: Three Reasons To Use Disqus […]

Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect You can now push your data between Facebook and other sites, awesome. (tags: facebook myspace api community dataportability opensocial) Cogent Metal: Firefox Smart Keywords Tip Good tips for Firefox users (tags: firefox tips productivity) Scoop: Facebook To Announce Safety And Privacy Deal With 49 States (tags: facebook privacy […]

Let’s All Reinvent the Wheel… Again, and More – The Daily WTF Ouch, bad interview and resume stories. (tags: interview programming resume humor) If You Put That Picture On The Internet I’ll Call My Lawyer on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Some people are pretty stupid and think they know the law but they really don’t. […]

Buttons Padding Demo Padding of buttons in various browsers, important to remember. (tags: css webdesign button form) BBC NEWS | Technology | Building digital life lines This is good work, setting up communication lines post disaster. (tags: communication technology telecom charity unitednations) A List Apart: Articles: Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help? Interesting little study […]

Nine Inch Nails Album Is Free Online – New York Times This is totally awesome of NIN. I’ve already got the album and think it’s really good. I can’t wait till he puts up the physical copies for sale. (tags: music nin technology piracy) BBC NEWS | Business | Oil hits $120 a barrel milestone […]

Breaking: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal (Updated) (tags: internet business microsoft yahoo) Yahoo’s Tough Week Ahead Now that Micrsoft has pulled the plug on a deal, what happens to Yahoo? (tags: yahoo microsoft business) Guessing Yahoos Opening Stock Price – Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds — DealBook – New York Times […]

Schneier on Security: Sky Marshals on the No-Fly List (tags: security stupid) Bad Astronomy Blog » Where is the center of the Universe? (tags: astronomy space science) The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class? » My Money Blog An interesting talk about the change in the American middle class from the 1970’s to the 2000’s. […]