links for 2008-12-03

"As your application’s complexity increases, you’ll thank yourself for the opportunity to reduce the complexity underneath it." Always reduce the complexity of what you are doing.

"There are two approaches to cloud storage: dumb and smart. " To use the cloud make it smart.

"The White House on Tuesday approved a final rule that will make it easier for coal companies to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys." You know because it's so hard on those companies to not fill up streams and valleys with dirt.

India is going looking for those responsible.

Here's what they plan to do, who knows if it will work. Oh and GM needs 4 billion to make it to January. Ford says it can probably make it but wants $9 billion in loans for it to take if it needs it.

Can you say stupid and even worse than metal detectors? "Developers say the combination of these technologies can detect a person's reaction to certain stimuli by reading body temperature, heart rate and respiration, signals a terrorist unwittingly emits before he plans to commit an attack." Right, won't ever get fooled or people could just not react?

CIA is defiantly going to a tricky agency to deal with for the Obama team.

The N97, wow it's got the features does it have the software to power all that?

Great little WordPress tricks for all those articles.

What they heck how many more ads do we need?

This is what happens when pharmacies are allowed to refuse to fill prescriptions.

What happens when your browser knows who you are?

Thailand might start returning to normal.

Say it with 2.7 on Dec. 4th!!!!!

"US Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss has won re-election in a run-off in Georgia"