links for 2009-02-04

Not good: "Suspected militants in north-western Pakistan have blown up a bridge, cutting a crucial supply link to Nato forces in neighbouring Afghanistan."

UK told to keep the pressure and sanctions on Zimbabwe.

Don't use CSS because the rest of the world says you need to use CSS, use it because it works and if it doesn't use something else.

Open source photo organizer.

As expected: "US President Barack Obama has picked Republican Senator Judd Gregg to be his commerce secretary."

I like the last part: "For those of you who think atheists are being too touchy, here are two additions. Put yourself in the position of the patient. You are sick and dependent on this person to help you get better, and she declares that your belief in her god is important. What do you do? There is an element of coercion here that should not be ignored. If the nurse were sincere in her faith, there's something very easy she could do. Don't ask, just go quietly off by herself and pray for the patient. The request is an unnecessary element that is little more than a ploy for attention, a declaration of her piety."

"jQuery.Hotkeys plugin lets you easily add and remove handlers for keyboard events anywhere in your code supporting almost any key combination."

"Statistically significant other."

Can I steal that sucker?

Answers for some complaints about the stimulus plan.

"The Senate on Tuesday pushed the cost of the economic stimulus package above $900 billion by adding billions for medical research and tax breaks for car buyers. " Are we trying to get this bill passed, people?

Regardless of whether you think it's a good for the bailout to be politically viable this needed to happen. "The Obama administration is expected to impose a cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive large amounts of bailout money, according to people familiar with the plan."

See if you can spot the differences between these two photos?

What image type should you be using?

CSS files should already be loaded before JS, but just in case with jQuery 1.3, it's required.

"The PA hopes recognition of the court's jurisdiction will allow it to investigate allegations. Israel does not recognise the ICC's jurisdiction. " How many people want to take a bet on Israel breaking the laws of war?

What happens when a Lit Professor, takes the Lit GRE?

Crazy cool for Amazon.

Obama will still talk to Iran, but sanctions will be strengthened probably.

Wow really intelligent: "And we will take 90 percent of Republicans with us into a New Party that will take its current place! We must end affirmative action, protect our gun rights and all our constitutional rights, have a moratorium on immigration, we must have protectionism, yes I said protect American businesses and their workers from NAFTA and GATT and the lie of free trade, and we must have America First, not foreign interventionism. Our boys should be home protecting the American borders a not being murdered on the borders of Iraq or Afghanistan. …the Republican Party, the last major party of White redoubt" Yeah, pretty sure you aren't going to get anywhere near 90% of the Republican party, maybe 9%.

From the article: "US President Barack Obama has said "I screwed up" over his handling of a controversy that led two politicians to decline posts in his administration."

Alzheimer's could be treated the same way we treat Type II Diabetes, with insulin.

"China's reaction was far harsher than when two shoes were thrown at former US President George W Bush." Personally I find it pretty funny, that you would throw a shoe at someone.

Crazy idea, but it could work. What if instead of trying to block spam, we send out our own fake spam, when you click on it, you get a warning message.

9 months and still no Flash CS4.

Daschele withdraws, as does Killefer.

The no-fly list (which has done nothing since it was created) costs between $300 million and almost a billion, average cost per year is $100 mil.

Searching on Google now fully AJAX driven, cool.

I agree the IT job market is a horror fest. Personally I'm seeing a slowdown but not a downturn in jobs.

Why Microsoft, why???

Israel bombs tunnels in Gaza after a rocket hit Israel.

Turn your handwriting into your own font.

From the article: "North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire its longest range missile, apparently capable of hitting the US, a South Korean official and reports say."

The new reasoning behind the Fermi Paradox, that may render it mute gains a bit of traction.

Both funny and cool images of New York City in Lego's.

$10 refund for 30 seconds of porn. I wonder if the FCC is going to be looking into fining Comcast?

It's either too easy to cheat or too hard to understand the tax code, only reason for 3 people smart and wealthy enough to pay taxes and in public service and thus needing to pay taxes wouldn't pay them.

I like the flip here. We learn more when we do things right, than when we fail.

The vast majority of people, especially at the tax brackets we are talking about with regards to Obama's candidates for various positions owe back taxes for all kinds of things.

US base is shut down after Russia promises $2bn in aid, also citing that the base was originally only to be open for 2 years, still open 8 years later.

Key factor Windows 7 could run really well on netbooks.

Buffett seems to be trying to save the world one company at a time $300 million to Harley-Davidson.

Generate Google News stories to show on your web pages.

WTF?? What kind of company commits an action that could get them sued and then admits to it?