Month: October 2009

  • links for 2009-10-31

    Obama Lifts HIV Travel/Immigration Ban – Feministing "This should go a long way towards battling the seemingly ubiquitous stigma and discrimination HIV-positive people face worldwide. What a great way to end the week!" (tags: hiv aids obama travel politics) Senate Ethics Committee To Meet In New Ethics Committee Mansion | The Onion – America's Finest […]

  • links for 2009-10-30

    Obama's right. It's time to stop taking Fox's skewed news seriously. – By Jacob Weisberg – Slate Magazine "Let's do a quick study of our own. Five people are quoted in this article. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to […]

  • links for 2009-10-29

    Official Google Blog: Making search more musical "Today, we're rolling out a search feature that does just that by enabling you to search and more easily discover millions of songs, all via a simple Google web search. If you're searching for music, "time to result" is really "time to music." Now, when you enter a […]

  • links for 2009-10-28

    130 iPhone UI Icons for iPhone Applications | Web Resources | WebAppers "Glyphish provides 130 great icons for iPhone applications. They are designed and carefully optimized for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps, they are also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more." Nice. (tags: iphone icons webdesign design graphics) […]

  • links for 2009-10-27

    Got Perfect Credit? You Could Be Charged For It! – wcbstv.com "The banks are starting to charge fees to reliable customers in response to a slew of new credit card industry regulations that will limit when banks can hike interest rates. Cardholders who get a new annual fee notice in the mail will be in […]

  • links for 2009-10-26

    We Keep Finding Historically Significant Photos. Will Our Grandchildren? | Columnists | Mediaite "Imagine if there were an easy way for digital media to be preserved indefinitely for nearly no cost. What gems might future hobbyists and historians uncover, digging through an infinitely large pile of images at a point when they become publicly available? […]

  • links for 2009-10-25

    The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming Fact Quiz – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com "Unlike the question that we are asking — How can we most efficiently cool the Earth fast? — the types of questions that environmentalists are trying to answer mix together both scientific issues and moral/ethical issues. If you have any doubts about this, watch Al […]

  • links for 2009-10-24

    Onion foxy, Fox stinks | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine "Wait, remind me again: which one is the fake news organization? The Onion, or Fox?" (tags: mayan media journalism) Marco.org – Coding Horror: Treating User Myopia "Microsoft’s typical response to bad designs is to add text to explain them. Then, when that doesn’t work, add […]

  • links for 2009-10-23

    Education is not the solution to all personal-finance problems | I Will Teach You To Be Rich "So when it comes to education, I start rolling my eyes when people suggest education is the magic bullet. Let’s get real, please. As heretical as it is to say in our society, “education” is not the panacea […]

  • links for 2009-10-22

    The Web Spends 8 Billion Minutes Online Everyday Using Facebook "They’ve come up with a number of their own solutions to solve a massive scaling problem, and sometimes we (the users) see bugs as a result of that. But, in a world where the much smaller Twitter goes down regularly, Facebook’s relative stability is pretty […]