links for 2009-05-21

"Burmese authorities have barred international observers from the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after allowing them to attend."

43 second film that also has 50+ seconds of credits. The film is pretty good, just amused at the length of time on the credits.

Even kids know not to get involved in a tv network.

"The Fed says it expects the economy will shrink between 1.3% and 2% this year. It had earlier said the economy could contract between 0.5% and 1.3%. It also warned that US unemployment could reach 10%. But the pace of economic decline was beginning to ease, the Fed said in the minutes of its meeting on 28-29 April." Umm is that good or bad news?

"Every single minute, over 20 hours of video are now uploaded to YouTube." Words fail me.

"Barack Obama has been president only four months, but already his name is cropping up on schools, other buildings and avenues across the country." Yeah it is too soon. I personally feel people shouldn't be honored in this sort of manner till post death.

"Even as Congress weighed options to finance health insurance for tens of millions of Americans, lobbyists mobilized Wednesday to head off proposed taxes on employer-provided health benefits, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks." Lobbyists on both sides start working.

"In other words, BillShrink didn’t tweak the results because of their marketing partner. It just so happens that T-Mobile has real incentive to push them as an independent third party. Because they always come up with T-Mobile on top. Something tells me the other networks won’t be doing similar deals." Okay cool and effective.

Some really interesting designs in there.

Go figure Microsoft doesn't really support open formats. Including spreadsheet formulas not transferring across.

"The American actor who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years has died at the age of 62."

"User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said."

"Leading the way is Virgin America who announced today that they are the first airline in all the land to offer Aircell’s Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service on every single flight. To mark the occasion an air-to-ground Skype video call will take place with thee Oprah Winfrey herself and will air on Thursday the 21st. VoIP calls aren’t allowed on any Virgin America flight, but, you know, you can’t say no to Oprah or she’ll eat you."

Really good and fun video to watch.