links for 2009-02-02

10 pretty simple tips to improve your web site's speed.

What to do about mobile devices.

From the article: In a rare public ruling, a secret federal appeals court has said telecommunications companies must cooperate with the government to intercept international phone calls and e-mail of American citizens suspected of being spies or terrorists." However it says that they must cooperate, not that it is legal.

New rules on integration.

Neat way to develop print-this links that actually work.

Imagine that once we stop from calling people "the axis of evil" they are actually willing to work with us to solve problems.

How important is religion to each of the states in the US.

Great little bit of code to turn lists into fully working trees, with CSS and jQuery.

This is crazy, first that Nokia is wanting a law to allow them to follow employee's email and second that Nokia is using it's industrial power to push the law through.

Two percent failure rate, no problem. I'm sure there are never any elections where 2% of the voting population could effect the outcome.

1.83 million years old in Malaysia.

This is a bad idea, for one it also prevents legal and good uses of the technology. Perfect case, hostage scenario, now a hostage can't phone the outside and tell the good guys what's going on.

States are not able to provide for the vast number of enemployed people inside their borders.

To sum it up: "And in return for what is likely to be a huge subsidy to stockholders, taxpayers will get, well, nothing."

Secure your data.

I do realize tagging myself is kinda stupid, but I'm making an exception, for this one. I write about why I think web applications are where business across the board will be moving.

ABC finished selling their ad space yesterday, wow.

I really don't agree with this point of view, but it's still a good read to see why some people dislike web-apps.

Just what it says.

Really enjoyed this rant on print comics and how web comics are able to make money and survive vs. print comics.

The average customer: "are spending $400 less each month than they were a year ago, have burned through half of their savings, and on average have taken on an additional $5k in debt."

His opinion.

China could possibly stop buying our debt.

Great news for open source software.

Turn your email campaign into a permission campaign.

Rousing endorsement of Ruby on Rails over PHP.