Month: January 2011
TUAW – The GPL, the App Store, and you
Lots of information into all the nuances of the GPL and how Apple could be right or could be wrong in it’s treatment of GPL licensed apps.
Subtraction.com – Blu-Ray Blues
I’ve thought about purchasing a Blu-Ray player but I keep avoiding it due to crap like this.
Cocktail Party Physics – i think that i shall never see / a carbon offset as lovely as a tree
I loved every little in nook and cranny she explored from just a couple of simple marketing statements.
NYTimes.com – Climate of Hate
This is perhaps the larger point, there is a problem when violent rhetoric is used as a substitute for reasoned and rational debate.
The New Yorker – The battle over the Constitution
Covers the history of the ratification, the document itself and how it’s been used to argue all sides in a debate including gun control.
Neteye – Activity Indicator
New favorite jQuery plugin, looks pretty smooth in Firefox too.
git ready – temporarily ignoring files
Nice tip.
FactCheck.org – A ‘Job-Killing’ Law?
Let’s see misrepresents the CBO report, ignores the CBO report in other parts, yep totally valid criticisms Republicans.
BBC News – Giffords shooting: Suspect Jared Loughner charged
What a tragedy.
UX Movement – Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit
While submit describes a generic case of what the user is doing (ie. submitting a form) it doesn’t really help the user know what the button is for.