Month: October 2008
links for 2008-10-31
Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again. How is Facebook going to pay for itself? (tags: facebook business economy web2.0) Coding Horror: The Problem With URLs Parsing URLs. (tags: url internet programming html regex urls)
links for 2008-10-30
Ted Stevens Receives a Hero’s Welcome in Alaska – NYTimes.com They are going to elect a Senator who can't vote, that's funny. (tags: tedstevens corrupition alaska mccain palin politics) BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New minerals point to wetter Mars (tags: science mars Astronomy nasa space life water) Slashdot | Finnish E-Voting System […]
links for 2008-10-29
Javascript Best Practices (tags: javascript programming ajax web2.0) Coding Horror: Who Needs Stored Procedures, Anyways? (tags: sql programming webdevelopment database) Redmond Developer News | PDC: Anders Gets Dynamic on Future of C# I'm not so sure C# should be moving towards a dynamic type, just doesn't fit in with C#. Why not one of the […]
links for 2008-10-28
Big Tech Companies Back Global Plan to Shield Online Speech – NYTimes.com Nice idea but will it do anything, probably not. (tags: technology google microsoft yahoo business privacy freedom freedomofspeech internet) Sentinel exclusive: Is NASA's Ares doomed? — OrlandoSentinel.com Ares is having more and more problems. (tags: ares nasa science space) BBC NEWS | Technology […]
You Should Educate Yourself and Vote, or maybe not
I was thinking about this little thing we have coming up in the US, that well is dominating everything. The Presidential election and at first I was going to urge that you should educate yourself and then go and vote on Nov. 4, and also point you to a place to go in case you […]
links for 2008-10-26
GDP vs a lot of stuff about the envirnoment Interesting graph, maybe it doesn't mean anything and I certainly thing we can have a sustainable environment with a high growth economy. (tags: environment statistics global climatechange globalwarming) Who sparked the global cooling myth? – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist Guess what there never was […]
links for 2008-10-23
Google Analytics Gets a Major Ugrade (AdSense, Custom Reports, API, Bubble Charts) I love Google Analytics. (tags: google analytics statistics internet api) Being Poor « Whatever What does it mean to be poor. (tags: culture social poverty essay) What real life bad habits has programming given you? – Stack Overflow So what are your bad […]
links for 2008-10-22
Obama sign replaced with rebel flag – News – inRich.com Gahhh, racist and stupid people should die. (tags: racisim election 2008 obama politics)
links for 2008-10-21
Rands In Repose: FriendDA The Friend Disclosure Agreement. (tags: friendship copyright Humor business nda) Banned author criticizes decision | DailyComet.com | The Thibodaux Daily Comet | Thibodaux, LA I'm pretty sure every tenth grader has used the language in Black Hawk Down. (tags: stupid censorship education highschool usa) BBC NEWS | Middle East | New […]
links for 2008-10-20
The Things He Carried – The Atlantic (November 2008) "Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease." Old news to me, but important to […]