links for 2008-12-25

How Chinese is all that Chinese food we eat, not that Chinese at all. After all which do you eat more often apple pie or Chinese food?

Making a better log-in experience for everybody.

Oh no, horrible news for Watchmen.

How close to shady do you have to be?

Some really nice GPL licensed fonts.

The SAG will hold off on sending ballots on a strike to force contract negoations with studios till Jan 14.

Why is America's infrastructure so old and decrepit compared to other parts of the world?

Just what it says, all of which make sense.

Oh boy more bad science that the US almost funded, too many have been funded in the past.

Another one of the biggest problems with Apple and the iPhone, Apple gets to decide what belongs and what doesn't.

I have to agree Ubiquity is an interesting concept but a failure in terms of implementation.

Stupid, links are always a good thing.

Just in case.

I'm still wavering on getting an e-book reader. The main question is the ability to back up my books so I don't have rebuy them (also a standard format like mp3 with the music industry would be nice).

The newspapers are dying and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Oh good thing I don't sleep much then.

3 plants in the US are left that are producing SUV's, one for each of the big three auto companies.

Neato tip to balance out the color levels in a photo.

Dell is supposed to be making a MacBook Air rival, interesting. Hope it turns out good.

Oil is back under $40 a barrel, I wonder if it is going to fall more.