Month: May 2009

  • links for 2009-05-17

    Costco Accused of Abusing Wage Law – NYTimes.com "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." (tags: costco business larbor law legal california) Slashdot | Open Source Solution Breaks World […]

  • links for 2009-05-16

    Friday night, I'm playing with Wolfram Alpha (Scripting News) Some sample demonstrations of Wolfram Alpha. (tags: search searchengines google wolframalpha) Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com >> Blog Archive » Talking about “sexting” Cory Doctorow's reasoned response to sexting. (tags: textmessaging sexting information privacy children parenting) Random House shuts down Kindle text-to-speech for their titles "And so it […]

  • links for 2009-05-15

    Jobless Claims Rise on Auto Layoffs – NYTimes.com "The Labor Department says the number of people requesting rose to a seasonally adjusted 637,000, from a revised 605,000 in the previous week. That’s above analysts’ expectations of 610,000." Isn't it fun. (tags: economy business depression recession usa unemployment) Hulu Questions Nielsen’s Count of Its Audience – […]

  • links for 2009-05-14

    Home :: GeekAdvancement.com Advance the Geek. (tags: geek video culture information technology) Facebook | Interact with Your Stream Anywhere "Now, you'll be able to view your stream and publish information into it from places you never could before — like your desktop computer or your mobile phone. Your stream will appear just as it does […]

  • links for 2009-05-13

    Gizmodo – New Apple Ad Mocks Microsoft Laptop Hunters In Usual Smarmy Way – Apple Okay this was pretty funny. (tags: apple advertising microsoft) BBC NEWS | Health | Survival gene for motor disease "Scientists have identified a protective gene that increases survival in motor neuron disease." (tags: science health medicine medical genetics research)

  • links for 2009-05-12

    fit-PC2 Wiki "CompuLab introduces fit-PC2 – the smallest, most power-efficient Intel Atom PC to date. fit-PC2 architecture is what sets it apart from other nettop PCs – fit-PC2 is designed around the Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz and the ultra low power Intel US15W system controller hub, rather than the Atom N270 and 945G used in […]

  • links for 2009-05-11

    Open Letter To Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg | THE CUBAN REVOLUTION "The issue of the proliferation of Facebook groups that promote hatred of religious and ethnics groups and the hate speech those groups perpetrate. While you may have your doubts, I submit that this includes those who promote the fringe revisionist theory of Holocaust Denial." (tags: holocaust […]

  • links for 2009-05-10

    Icojoy – stock icons shop, article 'Onebit free icon set' Nice set of webicons. (tags: icons webdesign webdevelopment) snopes.com: Texas Dividing into Five States Texas can leave the USA but only by dividing into 5 separate states. (tags: texas usa politics history) We Texans Are Patriots; Understand Our Shame … | American Constitution Society "Why […]

  • SQL: The Basics

    SQL is a domain specific language (a language designed to do one thing and knock the socks off at doing it) that just accesses databases. Okay but what is a database? Well a database is essentially a collection of data, yeah I know that doesn’t help much. To clarify we’ll play a little mental exercise. […]

  • links for 2009-05-09

    Server Fault Ask your sysadmin questions here. (tags: sysadmin windows linux technology hardware software stackoverflow serverfault apache support server) QuarkRuby: Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery What makes a developer switch JavaScript Frameworks? (tags: prototype jquery javascript webdevelopment programming css ajax library framework ruby rubyonrails)