links for 2008-05-26
2008 May 26
- Surving in New York on a small salary.
- Really good talk about the communication changes occuring via the internet and how we are becoming Hyperconnected through services such as twitter.
- Sarah Lacey tells Zuckerberg not to sell Facebook to Microsoft.
- Arrington responds to O’Reilly’s blog post, saying that search is still very much in it’s infancy for the web.
- O’Reilly says that Yahoo and Microsoft should give into Google and just outsource search to them.
- Some important tips for PR in today’s media world, not just useful for startups.
- The Swiss and being on time and running like a clock for everything. Insane to read this.
- Awesome news for the envirnomental and recycling front, kid discovered the microbes that eat plastic.
- How usefull are Machine Learned Models and are they easy to collapse in face of a black swan event.
- Security concerns around Google Health.
- Cool new research into image-recognition software.
- Okay that’s stupid and way overboard.
- WTF?? So two and half years of work by experts for English standards rejected in favor of standards created by social conseratives in a few hours and slid under the hotel door of the commision members. Thanks Texas those experts feel loved, oh so much.
- “We are glad the new curriculum will emphasize grammar and writing skills.” – How the heck do you know what the new standards will emphasive when you have even seen them yet???
- Interesting Canadian government will not allow storage of data on systems outside of their sovereign territory, especially the United States due to the Patriot Act.
- Read the article on taxing Harvard and other wealthy colleges, it makes sense.
- The most amazing bit in this article “In 2004, only 12 percent of historians were ready to place Bush dead last”, and now “History News Network’s poll of 109 historians found that 61 percent of them rank Bush as “worst ever” among U.S. presidents.”
- Good advice to keep your data, yours when crossing borders.
- Awesome Job NASA.
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