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links for 2008-11-23
Crimes by air marshals raise questions about hiring – USATODAY.com Sky marshals aren't even near to average citizens. (tags: security airlines tsa terrorism) NicEdit – WYSIWYG Content Editor, Inline Rich Text Application Just another WYSIWYG editor. (tags: programming software javascript opensource ajax html textarea wysiwyg webdevelopment webprogramming) Under Worm Assault, Military Bans Disks, USB Drives […]
links for 2008-11-21
Half of Doctors Routinely Prescribe Placebos – NYTimes.com To help with the patients psyche not their actual health. (tags: health medicine doctors placebo research) Usability Post » How People Really Use the iPhone Standard interface design decisions. (tags: interface ui iphone usability) BBC NEWS | Americas | US global dominance 'set to wane' This has […]
links for 2008-11-20
50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine Wow these are just beautiful. (tags: photography tiltshift photo smashingmagazine) ajax im – the ajax-based instant messenger Ajax based IM. (tags: ajax im programming javascript opensource chat application messenger) BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China moves to stem mass layoffs How do you know […]
links for 2008-11-19
Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial – DarkReading Just in case you really want to be secure. (tags: OperatingSoftware nsa security) Economic Scene – Piling Up Monuments of Waste – NYTimes.com Agreed it's not that we don't spend money, it's that the money isn't spent in a meaningful or useful manner. (tags: infrastructure […]
links for 2008-11-18
Computing From Weather to Warcraft – NYTimes.com "Just 18 months ago, China and India lacked a single system among the 25 fastest in the world. But on the latest list of the 500 fastest computers, released Monday, China nailed the No. 10 spot, standing as the only nation besides the United States in the top […]
links for 2008-11-17
Zuckerberg’s Law of Information Sharing – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com “I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before,” (tags: MarkZuckerberg facebook socialnetwork socialnetworking information culture web2.0 privacy socialmedia future) […]
links for 2008-11-16
Slashdot | Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net Stupid, if you don't like what it says than you shouldn't have done it. (tags: wikipedia freedomofspeech germany politics) Digital Domain – The Forces Driving Women Out of Computer Science – NYTimes.com Why are less women in Computer Science. (tags: computerscience education gender women) jmaps – […]
links for 2008-11-14
Coding Horror: Stop Me If You Think You've Seen This Word Before Google has so much power to throw at problems, do normal problems even bother Google? (tags: google search mysql programming stopwords database) Evolution: it works, bixbites | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine "And it shows one of the overwhelming strengths of science: it […]
links for 2008-11-13
How to create a stunning and smooth popup using jQuery | yensdesign – Tutorials, Web Design and Coding Just what it says. (tags: jquery javascript programming web2.0 webdesign design php ajax html popup) Sun Goes Beyond RAID in Its First Storage Appliance These look amazing. (tags: sunmicrosystems server storage zfs raid hardware technology) Slashdot | […]
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