links for 2008-12-08

This is just silly. Egypt wants and has apparently gotten Apple to disable the GPS in the iPhone, so that they can't tag military bases. Because it's so hard to have your own GPS unit and walk up to the base, or use a freaking map.

Email is such a failure as a communication medium it's no longer funny.

.cn (China's Top Level Domain same thing as .com) is now the second largest top level domain and growing at a much faster rate than .com.

Obama is already forging a new era in politics in which he is both moving forward with his liberal policies while conservatives are praising him.

Protect yourself from Session Hijacking.

Google responds to the accusation that they don't pay for their bandwidth.