Month: March 2009

Daring Fireball Linked List: Regarding Marissa Mayer's Personnel Decisions "As for holding one bad grade — or even entire bad subject areas — against someone, I’m more suspicious of people who did get good grades in every subject. In my experience they tend to be rule-crazy conformists, obsessed with their grades rather than with particular […]

Nielsen: Twitter's growing really, really, really, really fast | The Social – CNET News 1382% vs. Facebook's 228%. (tags: twitter facebook socialnetwork web2.0 statistics microblogging) Chrome Experiments – Home Take a look at what Chrome can do. (tags: chrome googlechrome javascript webdevelopment programming) The Associated Press: Martin to Ore. troupe: Show will go on, on […]

Slashdot | Diebold Admits Flaw In Voting Software How do you write a program whose logs fail??? (tags: evoting voting politics security technology programming logging) Sony and Google Announcing E-Book Partnership – NYTimes.com "Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a […]

Computer Science Programs Make a Comeback in Enrollment – NYTimes.com Good news for CS students. (tags: computerscience education usa college) BBC NEWS | UK | Airlines attacked over lost bags "Airlines around the world 'mishandled' 42 million bags in 2007 and irretrievably lost more than a million. " Go airlines? (tags: airline travel research statistics) […]

Is Rand Relevant? – WSJ.com "Pundits including Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santelli urge listeners to read her books" Pretty sure I wouldn't use Rush to sell my books, even to the WSJ. (tags: wallstreetjournal economics economy libertarian aynrand culture) Mozilla says next Firefox likely months away | Webware – CNET Beta 4 still to be […]

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqis 'more upbeat about future' "Violence and insecurity are no longer the main concern of most Iraqis, for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion, an opinion poll suggests. It says Iraqis are much more hopeful about the future and are increasingly pre-occupied with more conventional worries like […]

President Promises to Bolster Food Safety – NYTimes.com "Mr. Obama announced the creation of a Food Safety Working Group, which will include the secretaries of health and agriculture, to advise him on which laws and regulations need to be changed, to foster coordination across federal agencies, and to ensure that laws are enforced." (tags: fda […]

Vendio | Start selling on eBay, Amazon & your free online store This looks really interesting. (tags: amazon.com ebay software business ecommerce auction) The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist Wow just an amazing story. (tags: technology security crime italy belguim diamond history) Schneier on Security: The Doghouse: Sentex Keypads "When people building […]

37s-preview-b3faa2088b4e609877c70605f65efa2d.jpg – (37signals) What are you using to preview stuff? (tags: webdesign design 37signals) Adventures in Feminist Wedding Planning – Feministing How do you reconcile marriage and feminism? (tags: marriage feminism politics) Hulu launches social networking – Technology Live – USATODAY.com Just tried them out. Oh and I love the Wii Rock Band photo to […]

Official Google Blog: Here comes Google Voice Google is updating GrandCentral to include some really cool features. The awesome bit is this was one of those companies that Google seemed to buy and not doing anything with. (tags: google grandcentral phone voice mobile cellphone) ThousandtyOne! – .NET, Life and Logical Thoughts By Rajiv Popat – […]