links for 2009-03-02

Sometimes more fertilizer isn't the best option.

Research shows that the public underestimates the language that scientists use to explain the likely hood of something happening.

Great "cliff notes version" of the letter, really good tidbits in there.

The sad thing is that I do some of these.

First meeting in 6 years, between North Korea and the US led UN military forces.

Looks like John Gruber was right on the money.

"'(I have zero sympathy for these students, by the way. Until and unless they start offering humanities classes targeted at science majors– "Poetry for Physicists," in which you only read poems that rhyme, and have really obvious symbolism– I don't want to hear about how unreasonably difficult it is to force non-science majors to take classes that might challenge them a little bit.)" Amusing.

Science and Nationalism do not and should not go together, doesn't mean the US shouldn't fund or help fund scientific problems.

Pretty good demo on caching.

Cool.

"Google began running small text ads on the pages of its Google News service this week, reviving a debate between the company and some struggling newspaper publishers, who have seen their businesses devastated by the shift of advertising to the Internet."

I wish I was an English bloke just so I could cheer for this bill, the best I can do is try and get it that sort of bill here in the US.

Is Microsoft's case against TomTom worth anything and if not then what is Microsoft trying to get.

No, no, no, if you have to justify an entire field of study you are doing it wrong. There is much more to life, business and even our economy than science and technology.

If you are going to make a suggestion on people why not make the request easy to fulfill, do what you can to make it easier to say yes.

"Education is critically important. But you don't have to go to school to be educated and if being an entrepreneur is your goal in life, that's even more true." Great quote.

To make a start up work you have to keep adjusting everything till you find something that works.

How much more money do they need and/or are we going to give them.

Really how is that an effective solution. I would much rather pay more in terms of gas tax than have my driving monitored by Congress. Plus how would deal with people who primarily drive other people's cars?

I have to agree, I was wondering why we haven't had this sort of thing years ago.

From Meghan McCain.

I like this idea of the federal government taking on loans for students fully.

It's the fossil that is the in between crocodile and ducks.

When when you go from working jobs that pay in the top 10% in the nation to an hourly salary?

20% picked Romney, however another 9% wound up being undecided.

What can cities do to recreate Silicon Valley – simply funding startups.

Charts and jQuery always a fun option.

What do you think, does Java still suck?

"Iran has enough nuclear material to build a bomb, the United States' most senior military commander has said."

August 31st, 2010 combat missions will end.

That's pretty cool.

"The US Supreme Court ruled in a 7 to 2 decision yesterday that those convicted of misdemeanors related to domestic violence can not legally possess firearms."

This is pretty sick, parents are honestly worried about exposing their kids to someone who is disabled?

Adsense is not going to make anyone super rich, and the whole point of Adsense is that it targets markets never before reached on both sides of the table.

"This whole situation sucks. When government funds business, it messes everything up." Made me think.

Why is that these companies continually allow outside access to private information?

That's cool: "A UK and Canadian team have manipulated human skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells without using viruses – making them safer for use in humans. "

Oh my gosh, $1 per watt for solar power, that's the price point we were all looking for.

Why aren't EULA's more like this "Don't break the law"?

More rumors.

"DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, which will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML tables." Looks very cool.

"Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds." Hehe.

Where are the main brodcast networks going to go to get to pay the bills in this era?