links for 2009-03-18

Good news for CS students.

"Airlines around the world 'mishandled' 42 million bags in 2007 and irretrievably lost more than a million. " Go airlines?

"Awomo allows people to start playing a game before all the software has been downloaded." That's cool.

"Chicago could rake in “at least $200 million” a year — and wipe out the entire projected deficit for 2009 — by using its vast network of redlight and surveillance cameras to hunt down uninsured motorists, aldermen were told today." Nice one.

"Today on Capitol Hill Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) will formally introduce a bill that will finally authorize federal funding for comprehensive sex education."

Joomla is totally the winner.

"Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., today narrowed the range of mass where the Higgs might be found." Wow.

"The latest numbers from Nielsen Online indicate that Twitter grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month."

Technology changing the courtroom.

How should your Breadcrumbs be designed.

This is pretty cool.

"The US is drawing up comprehensive plans to help Mexico in its fight against drug-trafficking, a senior military official has told Congress." Oh fun.

Very cool.

Lol.

"Summary: A FoxBusiness.com article reporting on an amendment that Sen. Chris Dodd added to the recovery bill featured the false headline — subsequently posted by the Drudge Report — "Amid AIG Furor, Dodd Tries to Undo Bonus Protections He Put In." Additionally, Fox News' Trace Gallagher falsely claimed that Dodd "created a loophole that allowed AIG to give out these bonuses." Rush Limbaugh also falsely asserted that Dodd's amendment provided an "exemption from any limits on" contractual bonuses agreed to before February 11. In fact, Dodd's amendment actually limited bonuses; it did not add "protection" for bonuses or "create a loophole" without which the bonuses could not be paid."

"Terminally ill cancer patients who drew comfort from religion were far more likely to seek aggressive, life-prolonging care in the week before they died than were less religious patients and far more likely to want doctors to do everything possible to keep them alive, a study has found." Ok.

An impossible job really, trying to get a halfway decent energy plan in this environment.

So good to know Glenn Beck is still an idiot.

I sure do wish we could hold onto a program that is stupid and wasteful.

Good news the new iPod Shuffle headphones are not locked down with DRM.

"Pope Benedict XVI said condoms are not the answer to the AIDS epidemic in Africa and can make the problem worse, setting off criticism Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent where some 22 million people are living with HIV." Head meet wall.

Taking a guess they are going to vote for Rush, cause he's so intelligent.

"Summary: Fox News' Sean Hannity falsely claimed that under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "Republicans can't offer amendments; they can't offer alternative bills." In fact, in the 111th Congress, the House has voted on several Republican-sponsored amendments to various bills" Don't you just love Fox News.

WTF??

Great read, defiantly need to buy the book.

You could also use this to list a build number and refresh the cache every time you have a new build.

"In fact, according to data from the Tax Policy Center, only about 2 percent of families reporting small-business income in their 2007 tax returns are in the top two income tax brackets, which include those expected to pay more in federal income taxes under president Obama's proposal" Just saying.

"Being severely obese is as hazardous to health as a lifetime of smoking, shortening life by a decade, a group of Oxford University experts has warned." Thought this was already known.

"Huge bonuses paid out by ailing insurer AIG will be deducted from the firm's next bail-out payment, the US treasury secretary says." That's one solution.

Wow, just wow.

Just in case you were under a rock today or something.

Indeed.