links for 2008-12-15

What kind of gun do you have?

Just in case you thought Apple was you know fair about rejecting apps.

New prime for Thailand, maybe know the country will calm down.

Find out about memchaching.

Russia falls more and more into authoritarianism and limiting political freedom.

Tons of scams tourists get hit with.

"In summary, border biometrics have some benefit! They are at best a mild inconvenience to terrorists — an inconvenience that the 9/11 attacks mostly anticipated. But that's not zero benefit! It's just negligible benefit."

Stupid apps make their way into the App store.

"HOUSE MEMBERS VOTING 'YES' ON AUTO INDUSTRY BAILOUT RECEIVED, ON AVERAGE, 65% MORE FROM AUTO INDUSTRY INTERESTS THAN THOSE VOTING 'NO' " Just saying.

Gates has declared that the US troops are in the endgame in Iraq. In June the troops will move to bases outside of urban areas of Iraq.

Does your professor lie to you?

So Amazon didn't come out selling songs like crazy. Personally I really like Amazon, especially the no DRM factor.

64bit Wine, great news for the open source community.