links for 2008-06-18

Cool little prototype video of Gish2.

Really awesome Daily Show covering the hysteria around dumb fears about Obama (aka Muslim, etc) and interview with one of the US Attorneys fired in the Justice Dept. Scandal that brought down Alberto Gonzales.

This was an interesting video about a model in New York and what occurs in her day to day life.

“Apple, continuing its reliance on open-source technologies” Umm one thing however Apple’s whole plan is for you to only use their products via lock-in systems. iTunes, locked, MobileMe locked into their system.

You know those economists what could they know about economics surely the people know better.

I couldn’t agree more, intillegent debate is good and healthy useless comments don’t add anything to the discussion and don’t prove your point.

Are you a programmer wanting to test your skills, then jam some code.

Good news for the Wine community. Run your windows apps in Linux.

Finally a sorta real defention of broadband.

Really interesting TED video about computing.

Oh yeah something happened in California today, just saying.

Pretty powerful anti-McCain ad, I don’t like it but it is powerful none the less. Reasons I don’t like the ad, no real facts or any debate instead just using an emotional pull to get a response. I hate emotional advertisting.

I want one.

Important to remember when retiring.

Excellent news.

Schneier concludes LifeLock works but isn’t worth the $120 a year, it’s really easy to do the same thing with very little work.

Potential Progress in the Middle East.

Makes sense, we might be at/near the cutting edge but that just means that many more countries have lots of room to grow.