links for 2009-03-31

"You’ve got to trust your community to do the right thing – but also make it easy to clean up after people if they misbehave." Short summary of the Jeff Attwood and Clay Shirky talk at EclipseCon.

Hopefully this lost sales myth just dies.

Obama's top tax rate is not at all high especially compared to other current capitalistic societies or US history or what Bush wanted it to be at in 2011.

Line of sight, they can know what you are typing, even through glass.

Get those emails running.

So Google will now fund and buy your company.

"The first is whether or not the content is covered by copyright — and, for most messages the answer would probably be yes (there would need to be some sort of creative element to the messages to make that happen, so a simple "hi" or "thanks" or whatever might not cut it). But, the more important question then would be whether or not ESPN could quote the Twitter message. And, there, the answer is almost certainly, yes, they could, just as they could quote something you wrote in a blog post."

"Does an American have the right to post political opinion online anonymously? May a government official breach that anonymity absent a compelling state interest?" Yes and no for my opinion.

Bunch of links for jQuery, MooTools and Prototype.

"Alkaline tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds." Pretty freaking cool.

Aid will only be given if certain conditions are met.

"A new find from limestone deposits in southern China is helping to clarify the situation. In a paper in Nature, Min Zhu and colleagues at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences describe a well-preserved and practically complete fish fossil that is 418 million years old." Pretty cool.

"We employ and rely upon these three principles in most aspects of our lives, with both physically tangible and conceptual components of our experience. In fact we would literally be lost without doing so. Though we all possess an intuitive perception and reliance on them, it is good for a designer to have a granular and working understanding of all three of these principles"

What are the different ways to embed fonts in your web design?

"Is there a formal feminist movement anymore? Does there need to be?" Not really and not really again.

"The OmniGrid component is inspired by two similar components: FlexGrid jQuery and phatfusion:sortableTable and partly uses their source code. It was developed due to a lack of powerful DataGrid for Mootools 1.2 library. The author is Marko Šantić from Omnisdata company."

IBM and their crazy patents.

"Nearly 70 percent of the Pentagon’s 96 largest weapons programs were over budget last year, for a combined total of $296 billion more than the original estimates, a Congressional auditing agency reported Monday." Wow cut those programs and there is some money saved in the budget.

"China says it is reopening Tibet to foreign tourists in early April." Hello Tibet.

"Google is offering free downloads of licensed music tracks in China." That's pretty cool.

Bahh.

"Two US reporters held in North Korea earlier this month will be tried for illegal entry and "hostile acts", the country's state-run news agency says." Not good news.

"The US has finished constructing a huge physics experiment aimed at recreating conditions at the heart of our Sun." Science!!

No matter what GM will be a very different company when all this is said and done.

Drop in those drop caps.

I so need an iPhone if just for this app.

Yet another example that rethinking things about the environment means everything.

I guess that makes some sense, makes people feel better about buying a GM car.

" The US justice department has agreed to transfer a Yemeni inmate from America's controversial Guantanamo Bay prison. But it declined to provide details of where Ayman Saeed Batarfi would go." So what's up with that?

Well it's about time.

What happens when Clay Shirkey and Jeff Atwood combine?

"Microsoft has announced that it is discontinuing its Encarta line of products. The software products will be gone by June 2009 and the website will go down October 31, 2009." I'm pretty sure I won't miss Encarta Online.

This is pretty stupid. I understand not wanting kids to hit each other, but banning all forms of physical contact isn't just excessive, it's stupid.