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Economic View – Making It Easier to Register as an Organ Donor – NYTimes.com "By comparing the consent rates in European countries, the psychologists Eric Johnson and Dan Goldstein have shown that the choice of opting in or opting out is a major factor. Consider the difference in consent rates between two similar countries, Austria […]

Daring Fireball Linked List: Jackass of the Week: U.S. District Court Judge James Ware "This is absurd: Rocky Mountain Bank emailed confidential financial information to the wrong Gmail address. The bank attempts to force Google to release the name of the owner of the email address. Google refuses without court order. Federal judge James Ware […]

Justice Ginsburg Is Taken to Hospital – NYTimes.com "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Thursday after becoming ill in her office at the Supreme Court." (tags: supremecourt usa politics) QuirksBlog: The HTML5 drag and drop disaster "After spending about a day and a half in testing I am forced to conclude that the HTML5 drag […]

Lily Allen's copyright problem – Boing Boing "It's tempting to count coup here and write Allen off as a hypocrite, but there's a more important story here. Allen just hasn't thought this through. Copyright is problematic for everyone: musicians, fans, bloggers. The absence of clear affirmative rights to make personal copies, to share with your […]

Memories of the Futurecast: Episode Three – WWdN: In Exile "Hey look! It's Monday, and that means it's time for a new Memories of the Futurecast." More fun with Wil Wheaton. (tags: wilwheaton humor startrek writing) Why Developers Get Fired — Datamation.com "A second reason developers are shown the door is that they aren’t communicating […]

Something Positive: Sept. 21, 2009 Awesome Something Positive. (tags: humor nsfw somethingpositive webcomics) Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search "We went ahead and did this post on the official Google webmaster blog to make it super official, but I wanted to echo the point here as well: Google does not use […]

Marco.org – Businesses I'm Thankful Not To Be In "The music business." Indeed. (tags: business music copyright legal) House Expands Federal Aid to College Students – NYTimes.com "By shifting to direct federal lending, the Obama administration said it would save more than $80 billion over 10 years, which would go into higher Pell grants for […]

mPDF "mPDF is a PHP class which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. It is based on FPDF, HTML2FPDF, and UFPDF, with a number of enhancements." (tags: pdf php webdevelopment programming) Your Blog is Your Mothership "Maintained correctly, your blog is the one tool that will get you the most traffic, and it’s the […]

The next generation bends over – (37signals) "Mint was a key leader of the next generation of game changers. And now it’s property of Intuit — the poster-child for the last generation. What a loss. Is that the best the next generation can do? Become part of the old generation? How about kicking the shit […]

Ten Characteristics of Great Companies "So with that caveat, here is my list of ten traits I see in great companies. This is aimed at web/tech companies but I believe it can and should be applicable to all companies." (tags: business culture marketing management entrepreneurship customerservice) Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A […]