links for 2009-03-19
2009 March 19
- How do you write a program whose logs fail???
- "Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the Amazon Kindle." That's pretty cool, still want a Kindle though.
- "North Korean soldiers have detained at least one Korean-American journalist near the North's border with China, South Korean media say."
- "Under withering criticism from veterans and Congress, President Obama on Wednesday abandoned a proposal that would have required veterans to use their private health insurance to pay for the treatment of combat-related injuries." This was a dumb idea politically.
- Gov. Richardson repealed it saying: "“Faced with the reality that our system for imposing the death penalty can never be perfect, my conscience compels me to replace the death penalty with a solution that keeps society safe,”.
- This is one of those reasons why terrorism laws just wind up causing more problems than not.
- "Ross Sandler of RBC has done what every good analyst should do, which is say something interesting. What Ross has said is that, at its current growth rate, Facebook will surpass Google in size by 2011-2012." Interesting "At the very least, we think Facebook as the "starting point" for more and more users on the Internet could create some multiple compression for Google over time, if the momentum continues." Even more interesting.
- Apparently the new iPhone OS includes SquirrelFish, Webkit's new JS engine.
- "As the lucrative bonuses paid to employees of the American International Group fueled fresh outrage at the White House and on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the embattled chief executive of A.I.G. said that he had asked some recipients to give at least half the money back."
- The problem is sometimes it doesn't matter who did what, but who is stuck with what.
- Very cool.
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