Learning something new every day.
The Official Website of Eric D. Snider – Snide Remarks: Leaving in a Huff
This is just an awful tale of corporate stupidity, mis-communication and a company seemingly doing everything possible to make their employees feel awful.
CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes
When this goes through (though possibly not this year) some business is going to make a mint providing a back-end service to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a purchase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Checkout should start building that now, if they haven’t already.
Spaceflight Now – Discovery heads into retirement
Incredibly cool photographs and just a little bit sad.
NYTimes.com – Amazon to Sell Cheaper Kindle Supported by Ads
Uggh, really Amazon, not only is advertising not really your thing but only 25 dollars off.
Design Shack – UI Design: Should We Really Be Afraid of the Uncanny Valley?
Good points, a little bit of realism isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but just don’t take it too far.
Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again
If it wasn’t so frustrating you have to almost admire Republicans ability to ignore their own experts or examples when legislating.
Facebook Engineering Blog – Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project
The point is to demonstrate Facebook is working at a high scale much like Google and they aren’t opening up anything that actually makes them their real money.
NYTimes.com – “Serious”
Serious is making stuff up apparently.
NYTimes.com – Ludicrous and Cruel
I love that term voodoo economics, but in this case it seems to fit so well when you try to understand some of the ridiculous assumptions made.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Fully-qualified Nonsense in the SSL Observatory
What stupidity.
Got any book recommendations?