links for 2009-01-25
2009 January 25
- Totally agree.
- Exactly how I feel about sci-fi, the science-fiction is the main driver of the plot, not other stuff.
- I've always been skeptical of conventions, is there really enough people going that wind up being customers that make a difference to a business?
- Gaza has been pushed back years.
- I needed this about a year ago.
- Creat some cool looking charts with PHP.
- Just because you encrypt something doesn't make it secure, especially when you stick the key on the USB thumb drive.
- The Pope has reinstated 4 bishops including a Holocaust denier.
- "Women with high levels of oestrogen may adopt a simple relationship strategy more often associated with men: love 'em and leave 'em."
- Update to a great Flash image gallery.
- Schneier votes for more information: "I would much rather err on the side of more information, more openness, and more communication."
- From the article: "Scientists have found a potential way to prevent blood clots which can cause heart attacks."
- It's all hype people.
- "This is a good example of how non-security incentives affect security decisions." Or how a bad interface means your product might get sold once but doesn't get used or sold again.
- From the article: "Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source."
- Yeah okay, the Pope on YouTube, that's special.
- Pretty good themes.
- Raising court fees on people who are going through bankruptcy proceedings, does that make any sense?
- I find it amusing seeing Haggard use the language of a sex therapist to describe his sexuality, consider he would totally disagree with them for anyone else.
- I remember I read a book a few years back that said that China like Republican administrations, pro-business and didn't care as much about the human rights issues.
- Documented proof that the Israel army used white phosphorus on Palestine's.
- US will now fund all family-planning groups regardless if they promote or conduct abortions, great news for sex ed across the world.
- Sorry Factcheck.org says they cost basically the same.
- Wikipedia may prevent unregistered and unreliable users of the site in the future to no longer be able to change the site at the drop of a hat.
- "Studies have shown that simply reminding women or minorities that they are women or minorities causes them to do statistically worse on tests involving subjects that they are, stereotypically, supposed to be bad at."
- Facebook seems to just do some really stupid stuff every once in awhile, this is one of those.
- What do you know giving people a free taste gets them hooked.
- From the article: "The eldest son of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il says he has "no interest" in succeeding his father, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports."
- 4,223 American service members have died since the start of the Iraq War, here is the latest.
- Does Google have a monopoly: "As an unintended consequence, Google will enjoy what can only be called a monopoly—a monopoly of a new kind, not of railroads or steel but of access to information."
- Pretty standard review of the problems that brought us to this crisis.
- Is the White House going to move into the 21st Century?
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