Month: July 2009

  • links for 2009-07-31

    BBC NEWS | UK | Quakers 'to allow gay marriages' "One of the UK's oldest Christian denominations – the Quakers – looks set to extend marriage services to same-sex couples at their yearly meeting later. The church has already held religious blessings for same-sex couples who have had a civil partnership ceremony." (tags: quaker religion […]

  • links for 2009-07-30

    Senate Panel Endorses Sotomayor in 13-6 Vote – NYTimes.com "The committee’s vote was 13 to 6, with Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina the only Republican joining the panel’s 12 Democrats in voting for the nomination. The action cleared the way for a Senate floor vote next week for Judge Sotomayor, who would be the […]

  • links for 2009-07-29

    BBC NEWS | Health | Audio slideshow: Anatomical entertainment "Intricate wax models of humans – and their internal organs – helped educate medical students during the 19th Century. But they also offered the general public an unusual afternoon's entertainment." Very cool slideshow. (tags: science history medicine anatomy health) Longer Life for the Space Station Is […]

  • links for 2009-07-28

    Verizon Wireless seeks U.S. court judgment on ads | Technology | Reuters "Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone Group PLC, asked a U.S. court for a judgment that its advertising claims to be "America's Most Reliable 3G Network" were truthful, which rival AT&T called "misleading" on Monday." Oh fun. (tags: verizon mobile […]

  • links for 2009-07-27

    Op-Ed Columnist – An Incoherent Truth – NYTimes.com "One interpretation, then, is that the Blue Dogs are basically following in Mr. Tauzin’s footsteps: if their position is incoherent, it’s because they’re nothing but corporate tools, defending special interests. And as the Center for Responsive Politics pointed out in a recent report, drug and insurance companies […]

  • links for 2009-07-26

    John Dvorak's Second Opinion: Is the party over for behemoth Microsoft? – MarketWatch "Try to remember all the crazy directions Microsoft has gone in over the past few years. Note the dizzy remarks by Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, who recently insisted that online advertising would soon account for the majority of Microsoft's income. This is […]

  • links for 2009-07-25

    Programmer Competency Matrix The competenance of a programmer. (tags: programming development programmer software coding interview education career) George Fox University – Student Essay – What My Faith in God Looks Like – NYTimes.com "The game generally started with a question, cycled through my beliefs, and ended with “because. . . .” Soon it was ending […]

  • links for 2009-07-24

    San Diego group plans 'kiss-in' at Mormon temple | News Story on 365gay.com "A gay rights group plans to stage a mass kissing demonstration outside the San Diego Mormon temple as a show of support for a gay couple cited for trespassing in Utah after sharing a kiss on church property." Awesome. (tags: utah mormon […]

  • links for 2009-07-23

    Convert pdf to word – Convert pdf to doc – Convert online pdf to word I needed this a while back. (tags: pdf software conversion) FactCheck.org: Canadian Straw Man "We've written before about conservatives claiming that Congress, or Obama, or Washington, or Democrats in general want the U.S. to have a Canadian-style, government-run health care […]

  • links for 2009-07-22

    Op-Ed Contributor – The Day Obscenity Became Art – NYTimes.com "In short, “community standards” were radically changing. The proof was that, after the ban on “Lady Chatterley” was lifted, the book reached the No. 2 slot on The New York Times best-seller list (topped only by Leon Uris’s “Exodus”) and, within a year, sold two […]