links for 2009-06-24

"In the trade cases filed with the World Trade Organization (WTO) the US and EU said China was giving its domestic industry access to cheap materials." Personal guess, it's true, China is providing national business with subsidized or even free access to resources.

The NewYorkTimes Review.

For Ray Ozzie generally being really smart, I don't get this. I don't think complexity is the real point of the web, it's the openness.

"The Windows 7 beta will begin bi-hourly shutdowns on July 1, 2009 and will expire on August 1, 2009." Not the RC, which I'm running and really loving.

Taking on love.

"Iranian riot police and militiamen appear to have halted protests in the capital, Tehran, after days of clashes over the country's disputed election. Residents say the city is quiet, but opposition supporters have called for a day of mourning on Thursday for those killed during the protests." This may be it for the protests.

"Mind Flayers." Nuff said.

"After six months in detention, one of China’s best-known dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, has been formally arrested and charged with subversion, the state news media said Wednesday." Dang it.

"But in a report on seismic impact that AltaRock was required to file, the company failed to mention that the Basel program was shut down because of the earthquake it caused. AltaRock claimed it was uncertain that the project had caused the quake, even though Swiss government seismologists and officials on the Basel project agreed that it did. Nor did AltaRock mention the thousands of smaller earthquakes induced by the Basel project that continued for months after it shut down." You know what we'll do we will make the tectonic plates unstable on a fault line, that sounds fun.

"In an interview with Italian gossip magazine Chi, the 72-year-old leader insisted he had never paid for sex." Why isn't American politics this fun.

"That puts a lot of pressure on AT&T's network (which we reviewed recently), but the carrier is ready for it, AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said. They're doing three major things to improve their coverage and speeds, one of which will have a huge positive effect on coverage in cities like New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles." Looks like Lubbock is getting the 850Mhz spectrum possibly turned on.

An interesting look at redesigning Twitter to focus more attention on the tweets.