links for 2009-02-19

For any writer looking to create a digital record of everything that they write, this looks really cool.

"simplyScroll is a jQuery plugin that can animate (scroll) a set of elements either automatically or manually, horizontally or vertically. It can also accept dynamic image input via a Flickr feed (note not API) or a local JSON source. This plugin can be performance intensive, so speed and framerate are fully configureable to accomodate lower spec systems."

We need to talk with Syria.

If the decision to place limits on the salaries when will (if they even do leave) they start leaving.

Links hard to click, long forms, and requiring registration for anything.

Next large mission is to Jupiter's moon Europa.

"Crime laboratories around the country are grossly underfunded, lack a scientific foundation and are compromised by critical delays in analyzing physical evidence, according to a broad study of forensic techniques published Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s premier scientific body." Not a happy finding.

What should you do before your website goes live.

"Israel's security cabinet has decided there will be no truce in Gaza until an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 is freed, Israel's interior minister says." Totally understand Israel's position.

If I had a choice between going insane or knitting, I think I would chose insanity.

"Sweden has agreed to give asylum to a Chinese Muslim man who was held at Guantanamo Bay for almost five years." Great news, happy for this guy.

This seems odd: "The appeals court said that only the executive branch, not the judiciary, could make decisions on immigration", doesn't there exist a special branch of the judicial system designed to deal with immigration?

Theoretically we even know the buildings he is most likely using.

I'm not so sure which way I fall on this issue.

"The environmental agency is under order from the Supreme Court to make a determination whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare, an order that the Bush administration essentially ignored despite near-unanimous belief among agency experts that research points inexorably to such a finding." About time.

This seems crazy, what the heck happened in Egypt?

"The US has urged its Nato allies to increase their troop levels in Afghanistan to fight the Taleban."

"The Law Lords have ruled that radical cleric Abu Qatada can be deported from the UK to Jordan where he faces jail for terrorism." Alleged to be Osama's right-hand man in Europe.

The third day of this spectrial.

"I applaud the adults involved for their discretion and temperance in this heinous case of texting without permission. " Seriously, don't you have something better to be doing.

Cool.

Wow. "A jury ordered Philip Morris to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for roughly 8,000 similar lawsuits in Florida."

This looks really, really really nice.

This really bites. "103 out of 173 co-op students will be laid off between now and June. 28 will be graduating in 2009 and will be allowed to finish; 42 students from critical skill areas will be retained."

And Hulu pulls out of tv.com.

And what Hulu has to say.

Hulu will no longer be on Boxee.

Get your pi on.

Sweden won't clean up GM's problem, good for Sweden.