links for 2008-12-29

Leap second to be added Dec 31'st.

Web2.0 has also been about making things feel authentic.

Prices have increased even though it is ridiculously cheap to send.

HP is working to increase it's presence in data warehousing and data analysis.

A 12 year old girl hospitalized by the police then arrested for resisting arrest. Stupid police.

Enable GZip compression with PHP in your .htaccess file.

You can't try and balance the budget when the economy is going through a recession.

Verified torrents.

The Internet is having us write more, but is it good writing?

It's sad that businesses have to be pressured by the media to follow the law.

More proof dark energy exists and that it is constant force across the universe.

Tenure isn't the problem with finding good teachers.

Amazing images from the Hubble.

Use informational images to give some context.

Create a blurry background.

Detect and redirect mobile browsers.

Some really cool uses of the CSS border technique.

Make your service not just good but good enough customers want to pay for.

Google and Facebook together could make an awesome search team.

Friedman argues that for the US to move forward with regards to green energy, higher gasoline tax should be imposed to fund green energy research.

I need to do this as well, create some sort of way for my family to get into my online accounts and access the data.

Sounds like a very cool conference, wish I can go sometime.

Level 3 Communications, one of the top internet backbone providers, had a little bit of a slowdown this morning.

How is the Windows turning out.