Category: General News
Daily Links April 8th, 2008
I keep finding that there is a ton of stuff day in and day out that I want to talk about but I don’t have the time or it isn’t really needing a full blog post to devote to. However I still wish to inform people about some of the most interesting stuff I find […]
TED Is Far From Useless
Short intro: It’s good to be back and blogging, sorry about the delay, but hey it took a long time to get stuff working again. So no more excuses onto the business of the day. Umair Haque, today wrote a blog post about TED. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) for those of you who haven’t heard […]
Google and the New York Times: Walking Down the Aisle?
This afternoon a post from Real Clear Markets came up on Techmeme, asking “Might Google Buy the New York Times?” The question is so ridiculous I almost didn’t want to respond but at the same time I can see how some people would think this is a good idea. New York Times would gain the […]
Trent Reznor and the $5 Album
Today Trent Reznor, the lead in Nine Inch Nails, was interviewed in an article for Cnet News.com. Reznor was interviewed over his latest expirment, in which he bankrolled an album “Niggy Tardust” with Saul Williams and then released it without any record labels and converesly any promotion. The entire album was made as a free […]
Texas Tech Email Changes Are Stupid
I’m currently extremely frustrated with Texas Tech and their email support at the moment. I’ve just converted over my email from being redirected to my Gmail account where I handle everything into setting up Thunderbird to receive the emails here at my apartment. Why did I do this in the first place, well it wasn’t […]
Presidential Election for US in 2008 Predictions
Short and sweet post tonight about the presidential election here in the US. Tonight the Iowa caucuses, the first in a multi-state system whereby each primary party chooses their candidate for President of the US, was completed. As reported by the BBC, Huckabee received the Republican nomination, with Obama taking the Democratic caucus. All right […]
Government Regulations: Do They Help or Hurt?
Cosmic Variance is a blog that discusses mostly physics related news and advances, noted an interesting study this morning. The study (PDF) examined the number of patents granted for sulfur-dioxide control technologies per year, noting at the points when major air control legislation listed. The graph can be quickly summed up by saying that before […]
Could Facebook Have Just Killed Open Social?
Facebook, on December 12th announced that they will be licensing the Facebook Platform methods and calls. In essence if you have written an application for Facebook, it will be able to run on other sites that have a license for FB platform. This could be the shot that killed Open Social before it ever even […]
Hey Let’s Get Smart People
Two articles today stood out in my mind today as I went through the day’s news. The first is from New Scientist, saying that access to family planning and contraception lowers the rate of abortion. The second from a feminist blog, Feministing.com, talked about the Bush administration’s appointee to the family planning office. This appointee […]