links for 2008-06-24

NIN preforming 1,000,000.

Good move UN.

The classic George Carlin, in his honor.

Icann proposing to have companies launch their own top-level domains, sign me up.

The cloud computer.

How to handle that flood of information.

Going online teachs valuable skils such as “creativity, being open to new or diverse views and communication skills”, just saying.

Good job Canada make isp’s justify traffic shaping not taking the company at it’s word.

Crud this seems stupid that envirnomental laws are being bypassed for a border fence that all evidence shows doesn’t add security to the US.

WTF, “Swimming pools around Shanghai are checking liquids”

Woot, woot, Java open source all the way.

Where is JavaScript going

Court rejects the term enemy combatant, good news for the rights of these detainees.

Be a better programmer.

I couldn’t agree more marality is in place without the need for the concept of a god type figure.

Not that this will do anything, but maybe people will notice and something will happen.

Good job US, way to do that whole “we don’t toture” thing.

Thanks Home Depot.

This is a novel idea, using Google’s search data to decide that something is no obsecene.

Evolution in action.

What to do about Darfur.