links for 2009-05-17

"Costco Wholesale, the warehouse club, was sued by a California worker alleging false imprisonment because, she says, employees are locked in stores against their will for 15 minutes after they are off duty."

"They sorted 1TB in 62 seconds, and 1PB in 16.25 hours." Wow, just wow.

Some really awesome themes in here.

"In the age of social media, I find something interesting in twitter, I follow the link to find myself in a friendfeed page with nothing but another link that I follow to a reddit page (with a few comments allright) only then to find the last link that would take me to the real content. This is really annoying, believe me! And I find myself going for this long chains more and more."

Yet another stupid patent.

I agree, just wait to switch to Win7.

"Publishers are caught between authors who want to be paid high advances and consumers who believe they should pay less for a digital edition, largely because the publishers save on printing and shipping costs. But publishers argue that those costs, which generally run about 12.5 percent of the average hardcover retail list price, do not entirely disappear with e-books. What’s more, the costs of writing, editing and marketing remain the same."

"President Obama on Saturday selected one of the nation’s leading Republican governors to serve as the ambassador to China, nominating Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah."

Seriously Apple do something with your music lessons.

"There are some definitive characteristics about my customers’ previous web persons and without further adieu, I give you 9 signs you shouldn’t hire THAT web guy."

Tons of fonts, some for free.

Need help, this is where to start.

"Basically, my source says that while this is in no way a done deal yet, Apple is definitely trying to come up with a way to offer background support for third-party apps. They went on to note that while Apple may have something to say about it at WWDC, it’s very unlikely that any solution would be ready at that time, and could be a situation similar to how Apple announced Push Notification at WWDC last year but said it was coming in a few months (which it later was delayed until iPhone 3.0)."

"Yesterday, Disqus launched a second option for "remote profiles" with their implementation of "sign in with twitter"." Cool.