links for 2009-10-31

"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!"

"In the wake of several major lobbying scandals, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics announced Tuesday that it will hold a special series of intensive sessions inside its recently completed 200-room Ethics Mansion." The Onion right on the money as always.

"We are uncovering better ways of failing in this industry by doing it and helping others do it. We are adding yet more bloated and abstract concepts that are so complicated no one knows what they actually mean. If they do mean anything at all." Fail Harder.

"The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world."

"All Hallows’ Eve is nearly upon us, and like many others I suspect, I’m scrambling for last minute costume ideas for the festivities planned for the weekend. I can always pull out the old tickle trunk, replete with the bits and pieces of costumes past, but where’s the fun in that? If possible, I like to repeat as little as possible." I really like the tech blogger costume, awesome.