Category: Quick Posts
Al Jazeera English – North Korea’s cinema of dreams
This was an incredibly interesting 25 minutes.
NYTimes.com – From Sputnik to SunShot
60% drop in about 15 years, another 75% percent drop over next decade with more emphasis on renewable energy sources seems totally doable.
Quora – What will happen to http://bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya due to protests?
I use their bit.ly pro service to for my short links through http://jty.me/.
Subtraction.com – The Interactive TV You Already Use
This invites this exact problem where a product almost entirely designed by engineers is marketed towards average people, leading to a failed product.
NYTimes.com – Public Workers in Wisconsin Protest Plan to Cut Benefits
The second part doesn’t make a lot of sense as far as a partial solution to solving the deficit, the collective bargaining wouldn’t reduce any current state payments to employees.
TimKadlec.com – Death to Captchas
I tend to agree, captchas create a cruddy user experience.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Trial of Independent Media Pioneer Chiranuch Premchaiporn Begins in Thailand
Blame the owner/operator for anonymous comments, sounds like fun.
Paul Rouget – IE9 & HTML5
Yep, IE9 is better but it’s still not a modern browser, two years ago it might have been, today not so much.