Category: Economics

guardian.co.uk – Ebooks: durability is a feature, not a bug
As tends to be the case, so on your side Cory Doctorow.
March 8, 2011
BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble
That’s not a fun change to make, especially because if people choose to reject cookies, they’ll want to know why the site acts so differently.
March 8, 2011
NYTimes.com – Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law
Humans beat a law made up by humans.
March 8, 2011
NYTimes.com – White House Issues Report on Women in America
And you wonder if feminism is still needed or if women are treated equally?
March 6, 2011
Scientific American Blogs – Observations: Can we get off oil now?
The argument of drill here, drill now, doesn’t really mean much.
March 6, 2011
NYTimes.com – Texas, Budget Cuts and Children
Who cares about ensuring the health and education of children, not Texas.
February 27, 2011
NYTimes.com – HarperCollins Limits E-Book Lending by Libraries
What total crud, publishers are just hurting themselves by not allowing libraries to loan out their books.
February 27, 2011
threatpost – RSA 2011: Winning the War But Losing Our Soul
Why is the IT security industry using black hat techniques for civilian work?
February 27, 2011
The Technium – Free Kindle This November
This would be awesome, I would totally be buying more Kindle books than I am already.
February 26, 2011
NYTimes.com – How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong
Honest doesn’t make them quite as much money.
February 23, 2011