links for 2009-02-09
2009 February 9
- "In 1960, the ratio of CEO pay at large companies to that of the president of the United States was about 2 to 1. In 2007, it was more than 20 to 1. In 1980, executives at large companies made about 40 times what the average worker made. Last year, CEOs made about 360 times more than the average worker." Wow.
- Great list of WordPress resources.
- "what on God's green earth gets a fucking PL7?" Just read it and you will understand.
- Interesting idea to shift nuclear weapons development to the Pentagon from the Energy Department, my one thought is that civilian control over the development of nuclear weapons might be a good idea.
- Pretty neat: "Lazy loader is a jQuery plugin written in JavaScript. It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. Images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) wont be loaded before user scrolls to them. This is opposite of image preloading."
- If part of the crisis is lack of banks loaning, why does the stimulus bill spend so little towards small-business lending programs?
- Now that you can essentially stream Facebook status updates what happens to Twitter? Personally I think Twitter will still be here, the purpose is very different between Twitter and Facebook status.
- OpenDNS will block computers from talking to known bad DNS records. This is such a great and easy idea to implement. OpenDNS should have started this years ago.
- How is spending not a stimulus, also "welfare" and education programs have historically been proved to provide the most bang for buck.
- Neat way to generate charts with javascript.
- That is a real thank-you card.
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