Learning something new every day.

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
jacquesmattheij.com – what a programmer does for a living
I did something similar to this when teaching an Intro to Computer Science course.
March 8, 2011
NYTimes.com – Brigitte Gabriel Draws Crowds in U.S. With Anti-Islam Message
Fear much like sex sells, for better or worse.
March 8, 2011
NYTimes.com – Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law
Humans beat a law made up by humans.
March 8, 2011
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Removes Works from the Public Domain
This should be declared unconstitutional, once work goes in the public domain, the work should stay there, perpetual copyright is a bad deal.
March 8, 2011
GitHub – digdog – UIDickBar
Don’t use it, but you knew it was coming.
March 8, 2011
Freedom to Tinker – Seals on NJ voting machines, March 2009
So security seals protecting those voting machines, useless.
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
Arash Payan – Presenting, Appirater
Pretty useful piece of software for iOS developers.
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

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