Month: November 2008

Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial – DarkReading Just in case you really want to be secure. (tags: OperatingSoftware nsa security) Economic Scene – Piling Up Monuments of Waste – NYTimes.com Agreed it's not that we don't spend money, it's that the money isn't spent in a meaningful or useful manner. (tags: infrastructure […]

Computing From Weather to Warcraft – NYTimes.com "Just 18 months ago, China and India lacked a single system among the 25 fastest in the world. But on the latest list of the 500 fastest computers, released Monday, China nailed the No. 10 spot, standing as the only nation besides the United States in the top […]

Zuckerberg’s Law of Information Sharing – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com “I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before,” (tags: MarkZuckerberg facebook socialnetwork socialnetworking information culture web2.0 privacy socialmedia future) […]

Slashdot | Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net Stupid, if you don't like what it says than you shouldn't have done it. (tags: wikipedia freedomofspeech germany politics) Digital Domain – The Forces Driving Women Out of Computer Science – NYTimes.com Why are less women in Computer Science. (tags: computerscience education gender women) jmaps – […]

Coding Horror: Stop Me If You Think You've Seen This Word Before Google has so much power to throw at problems, do normal problems even bother Google? (tags: google search mysql programming stopwords database) Evolution: it works, bixbites | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine "And it shows one of the overwhelming strengths of science: it […]

How to create a stunning and smooth popup using jQuery | yensdesign – Tutorials, Web Design and Coding Just what it says. (tags: jquery javascript programming web2.0 webdesign design php ajax html popup) Sun Goes Beyond RAID in Its First Storage Appliance These look amazing. (tags: sunmicrosystems server storage zfs raid hardware technology) Slashdot | […]

jQuery plugin for Twitter – blog – coda.coza (tags: jquery twitter webdevelopment javascript programming ajax) OXID eSales | Shopsoftware | Webshop und E-Commerce Lösungen | PHP Shopsystem | Shop Software (tags: ecommerce software php mysql) Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering Some fundamental facts about software engineering. (tags: software programming coding management) Panasonic and […]

BBC NEWS | Americas | US Elections 2008 | Palin puts faith in God for 2012 Shoot me now. (tags: palin politics 2012 election usa religion god) More Ammunition for People Who Hate Daylight Saving Time – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog Daylight Savings actually increases energy usage, not decreases. (tags: daylightsavings […]

BBC NEWS | UK | Muslims' free speech 'threatened' Yep, free speech needs to be protected. (tags: freedom freedomofspeech freedomofreligion religion islam europe uk) Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries – NYTimes.com I think this was pretty much assumed by most people. (tags: usa al-Qaeda military terrorism security) The Media Equation […]