Month: May 2009

  • links for 2009-05-30

    As Costs of College Sports Rise, Students Balk at Paying Tab – NYTimes.com "As athletic costs rise at a rate that the N.C.A.A. warns cannot be sustained, and as states continue to reduce spending on higher education, many athletic departments are seeking income beyond ticket sales, booster donations and television revenue to help stem the […]

  • links for 2009-05-29

    Twitter Chats: The New Media Commons? | Blog | design mind How do you sue Twitter to create a chat. (tags: twitter socialmedia business communication conversation web2.0) Woz Bing Apple Co Founder a "Big Fan" of Microsofts New Search Engine: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance "To be sure, Wozniak's expectations were low and he's withholding judgment […]

  • links for 2009-05-28

    Opera Desktop Team – Snapshot build with preview of the *new* Skin "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00" Opera's 10.0 version browser UA string, stupid. (tags: opera internet browser technology ua) Judge Rules LifeLock’s Fraud Alert Service Illegal | Threat Level | Wired.com "In a decision that has privacy advocates and others scratching […]

  • links for 2009-05-24

    Hither Eucalyptus! – Jamie’s Web Log "Earlier today I received a phone call from an Apple representative. He was very complimentary about Eucalyptus. We talked about the confusion surrounding its App Store rejections, which I am happy to say is now fully resolved. He invited me to re-build and submit a version of Eucalyptus with […]

  • links for 2009-05-23

    YouTube – Biz Stone on Twitter – Interview Still not understanding Twitter, Biz Stone breaks it down. (tags: bizstone video socialnetworking socialnetworks socialnetwork twitter youtube communication speed information media journalism utility) The Raw Story » Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture Within six seconds called quits and declared […]

  • links for 2009-05-22

    Damaged DNA Evidence Shrinks Serial Killer Case – NYTimes.com "A 72-year-old insurance adjuster who was linked by the police to as many as 30 murders from the 1970s and ’80s has been charged with only two killings so far because DNA evidence in other cases is damaged, police officials said." We might want to try […]

  • links for 2009-05-21

    BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Diplomats barred from Burma trial "Burmese authorities have barred international observers from the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after allowing them to attend." (tags: burma trial court legal law democracy politics) Last Day Dream [HD] on Vimeo 43 second film that also has 50+ seconds of credits. […]

  • links for 2009-05-20

    BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Cases of swine flu near 10,000 "Nearly 10,000 cases of swine flu have been confirmed in 40 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. The WHO said 79 people are known to have died from the new virus." Crazy. (tags: h1n1 flu swineflue health medical medicine who) Facebook Turns Down […]

  • links for 2009-05-19

    Vineland principal censors book | thedailyjournal.com | The Daily Journal "Alicia Harris said her son, Tre, got the book from a friend, who checked it out of the school library and was passing it around. Tre showed Harris the poem, which contained 11 instances of profanity, including five uses of the F-word." Because those middle […]

  • links for 2009-05-18

    Penny Arcade! – Body Movin' Pretty funny. (tags: gaming humor pennyarcade webcomics) Miles Johnson // Blog: CSS/JS/Asset Compression in CakePHP Compress CSS and JS in CakePHP. It worked for me. (tags: cakephp css javascript compression php jsmin js) Drilling Down – Social Networks Eclipse E-Mail – NYTimes.com "Alongside the explosive growth of online video over […]