links for 2008-09-25

This is pretty funny, you should watch it.

Senator Ted Stevens' trial begins.

Oh boy.

I must agree competition will come from the market not from the government or the government regulations.

This is ridiculous, why Apple??

Some of these apps look pretty cool.

That's a steal and then some.

That would have been an interesting project.

Uhh you think???

I agree with Newt Gingrich up until his plan to get us out of this mess, some points are, some aren't. However his reasoning as to why Washington should rush through any bill is solid.

The more I read about this the less I like.

I have to agree the technology side of education is lacking, it's all about the hardware and the software but not the people.

What does that mean when the EU is unwilling to give money to companies?

We're going backwards in time.

McCain's science policy.

Hmmm, this bears some looking into.

Another ruling that doesn't makes sense one of which is that sex is somehow worse than violence.

Accessibility is a major problem on the web and needs some real solutions.

See if you are registered to vote thanks of the Obama campaign.

See if you are registered to vote thanks to McCain.

What are the ways that IT workers can move up in a company.

I hope it makes it the whole way.

"So 50 percent of the enlisted recruits (i.e., not including the officers’ corps) come from families in the top 40 percent of the income distribution, while only 10 percent come from the bottom 20 percent." This is an interesting study on income and the military.

What are we doing??

What is the worst possible thing to happen in the 2008 election.

Dumb and dumber music labels.

At the very least if Congress is going to go through with this stupid bailout they should do this.

Wow this was an amazing guy who did some really and amazing projects.

Agreed I won't be buying music this way.

That would be pretty cool, though what if you have a data plan do you still get the ads?

How should restaurants deal with people who don't tip appropriately.

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs can now hold deposits from investors.

On the recent plan for the Treasury to take over the mortgage debt of the large financial firms.

The law being proposed to allow the Treasury Dept. to handle the finacial crisis would make so that the decisions are to not and can not be reviewed by a court or another agency. How is that legal?

Carbon dating places Stonehenge being built in 2300 BCE.

That's a cool little thing that Chrome does.

Looks like we could be sending money to banks that are foreign based if they have "significant operations” in the US.

That'll be nice.

Once again a Sarah Haskins is awesome.

Does Palin have anything beyond scripted responses, she has yet to really answer questions that are anything other than "Obama does this .., we won't"

Another iPhone app is down for the count.

"Other people, who can be just as scientific, see the natural order of the world in terms of entropy, decline and death.
Those people aren’t necessarily wrong. But the engineer’s point of view puts trust in human improvement. Certainly there have been moments when that thinking has gone horribly awry — atonal music or molecular gastronomy. But over the course of human history, writing, printing, computing and Googling have only made it easier to think and communicate."

Hey not so bad news for the IT sector.

Oh I want this.

Ugghhh.

I want to see this movie so badly.

I've got to agree, I think Microsoft actually did a pretty decent advertising campaign.

North Korea says that the US has not fulfilled it's side of the agreement.

Ehhh, it had to happen, McCain couldn't expect to be so off the cuff in the general election, far too risky.

The typical gamer is actually healthier than the average American.

Summary of the video is that there is no scientific evidence for life beginning at fertilization.

"Yet unless real life and academia somehow meet, they will not be able to transform one another, but instead will continue to operate in separate worlds, avoiding each another because of ignorance, fear, or both." This was a good essay.

What actually happened with Fannie, Freddie, AIG and Lehman.

"Solar panels with his 3D cells would provide 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than cutting-edge 3D solar cells." This kid and his design are going somewhere.

Dang, WebKit just drastically improved their JavaScript engine.

Good job IBM, now sell some chips.

EFF has filed another lawsuit against Bush and the NSA, over the surveillance of internet traffic.

All of this looks like good changes.

In warmer weather plans do not suck up more CO2 as was previously expected.

Well that's funny though it certainly looks like it is the correct legal judgment to remove them.

"US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has defended the right of American forces to strike at militants on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border."

Most recent Gallup poll, Obama and McCain back to pre-convention, most betting polls are going for Obama winning.

Oops, the DOJ's views on email privacy in an effort to have more unwarranted access to email limits their ability to prosecute this case.

$180 billion to international markets.

Well crud those actually worked.

I would argue that states have the right to set stricter controls than the federal government, they have to at least meet the federal guidelines but feel free to have stricter controls/warnings, etc.

"Nothing shocked me more in the early days of caring for my elderly mother than the discovery that Medicare, the U.S.’s universal health coverage for those ages 65 and older, does not pay for so many of the things the frail elderly require.

Not home health aides for those who can’t get out of bed, bathe, dress or feed themselves. Not an assisted-living facility, with handicap-accessible apartments, congregate meals and transportation services. Not nursing homes where the most helpless of the elderly live out their days with round-the-clock supervision." Didn't know that.

So should you bail on those stocks?

Good thing to complement it's host of cloud computing services.

Most betting systems are showing Obama winning.

Senator Hagel on Palin, still hasn't stepped over to endorsing Obama.

New ad by Obama, dang it's pretty darn good.

What's new in this report?

"Mr. Young defeated Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who had been endorsed by Gov. Sarah Palin, by 48,195 to 47,891." Looks like Palin isn't as popular as we were led to believe.

Well??

That's a slight improvement.

This makes me almost want to go out and get married in California.

Rather than laying down edicts try letting your people figure out how to fix things on their own.

This is really scary, do I need the police to know wherever I drive, uhh no.

"Study: Game experiences can provide hands-on learning opportunities" Umm something everybody has known for years, stupid media.

WTF??? "The feminists declare that she’s not a real woman because she doesn’t hew to their rigid categories." She isn't a feminist because she isn't, being a feminist doesn't mean being female.

Yeah, new changes in the HTML 5 spec with regards to forms.

Other countries used to use our court rulings, now less and less, is it because of the changes in the court or our foreign policy.

Scott Adams reviews his own survey.

Some very cool images of dynamic systems.

That's pretty cool, a guy found a way to spoof GPS receivers.

No and no, this does nothing for gas supplies either today or in the future.

Umm yeah just a little.

Are we really that close to a new version of Windows?

I don't see a point in having a home phone.

This looks nice, you can upload new audio and image files to 50+ services at once.

"On August 18, in the village of Narosura in the Rift Valley, a 10 year-old girl died from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At 5 that morning she was cut. By 10, she had bled to death. As a result, for the first time in Maasai history, a circumciser has been arrested." Both sad and good news.

This ad makes no sense.

Sarah Palin's email account was hacked and looks like she might have used private email for government use, which is a big no no.

Looks very nice for those who need to travel only within 40 or so miles.

No thanks, I don't need an RFID or a national ID card for me.

"Barclays bought Lehman's North American investment banking and trading unit for $250m, and paid $1.5bn for its New York headquarters and two data centres."

" The current world record was set in 2002 at the same location with a speed of 129.6 km/h (81 mph) by Sam Whittingham in a custom-made recumbent bike. A lot of advanced aerospace engineering goes into these machines to reach highway speeds on less than one horsepower." That is cool.

Aid dollars are misspent "Too often aid arrived too late, was short-term, and policies were targeted too heavily on saving lives rather than building resilience in the population, the report says."

Snorts, haha, that's funny.