Yostivanich

“The entire diver­sity of mam­mals reflects a mod­est tin­ker­ing with the orig­i­nal mam­mal plan. We share 99 per­cent of our genes with chimps, but we also share 95 per­cent of our genes with pigs and rats.”

“Every­one wants @font-face to work every­where, but as it stands, it only works in Safari and the upcom­ing ver­sions of Fire­fox and Opera. In this arti­cle I’ll show you how to use Cufón only if we can’t load the font through other, faster meth­ods.” Very useful.

“Despite what­ever short­com­ings Obama may have, it is nice to have a pres­i­dent with some knowl­edge of his­tory and recog­ni­tion that he is tasked with rep­re­sent­ing all Amer­i­cans and not just the Chris­t­ian ones.”

Secu­rity is the answer.

More art­work depict­ing atheists.

All the ajax scripts you could ever need.

“How can we cre­ate even bet­ter fem­i­nist spaces online?” I don’t have any sug­ges­tions, do you?

“Med­ical per­son­nel were deeply involved in the abu­sive inter­ro­ga­tion of ter­ror­ist sus­pects held over­seas by the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency, includ­ing tor­ture, and their par­tic­i­pa­tion was a “gross breach of med­ical ethics,” a long-secret report by the Inter­na­tional Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross con­cluded.” Wow, just wow, long sus­pected but finally out in the open.

Another $99 Bil­lion to be spend by the Japanese.

“US Defence Sec­re­tary Robert Gates has pro­posed an over­all increase to the US defence bud­get for 2010, although some major weapons pro­grammes will be cut.” F-22 would be cut though the F-35 would be funded instead, the new gen­er­a­tion of pres­i­den­tial heli­copters would be cut as well.

Didn’t we already decide that down­loads are not equal to lost money?

“IN a shift, the Trans­porta­tion Secu­rity Admin­is­tra­tion plans to replace the walk-through metal detec­tors at air­port check­points with whole-body imag­ing machines — the kind that pro­vide an image of the naked body.” Oh boy just what I want to go through, not even a sec­ondary option for you to go through.

Pretty cool jQuery menus.

“Melanne Verveer was con­firmed by the Sen­ate Fri­day as the United State’s first Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues.” Very cool.

“It describes how the Fed­eral Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion is mov­ing for­ward with plans to hand over bil­lions to the tele­com indus­try for the puta­tive goal of improv­ing U.S. broad­band access.” I enjoy the “puni­tive” almost like the author would want the money just handed over for nothing.

“It is hard to miss the news: the stock mar­ket has been on a bit of a roll lately. But with far less fan­fare, the credit mar­kets, where the finan­cial cri­sis began, are also show­ing signs of a spring awak­en­ing.” New York Times reports that the credit mar­ket is start­ing to unfreeze.

“Researchers in Brook­lyn have recently accom­plished com­pa­ra­ble feats, with a sin­gle dose of an exper­i­men­tal drug deliv­ered to areas of the brain crit­i­cal for hold­ing spe­cific types of mem­ory, like emo­tional asso­ci­a­tions, spa­tial knowl­edge or motor skills.” Kinda scary, not gonna lie.

“US Trea­sury Sec­re­tary Tim­o­thy Gei­th­ner says he is pre­pared to oust exec­u­tives and direc­tors at banks that require “excep­tional” gov­ern­ment assis­tance. He said the gov­ern­ment would con­sider forc­ing out senior man­age­ment to ensure that US tax­pay­ers were protected.”

“This is a hard les­son for mar­keters, par­tic­u­larly tech­ni­cal mar­keters, to learn. You don’t get to decide what’s bet­ter. I do.” Bet­ter is how the cus­tomer defines it not you.

One of the rea­sons I won’t go with ExtJS is their crazy licens­ing scheme.

“These two Japan­ese guys have built this amaz­ing Space Shut­tle using 65000 lego bricks and 1590 hours (Two per­sons).” That is pretty cool.

“Video of Tal­iban mil­i­tants flog­ging a young woman who was accused of hav­ing a pre-marital sex­ual encounter became pub­lic this past week­end and Pakistan’s Supreme Court announced an inves­ti­ga­tion yes­ter­day. Accord­ing to The Guardian, the flog­ging took place in the Swat Val­ley, but the Tal­iban and some gov­ern­ment offi­cials are claim­ing that the tape is fake. Media reports indi­cate that the inci­dent occurred between two and six weeks ago.” Good to hear.

“With the recent addi­tion of CVS/pharmacy to our net­work of phar­macy part­ners, more than 100 mil­lion peo­ple can now access their pre­scrip­tion his­tory online and import it into a cen­tral, secure place — a Google Health Account.” Just in case you wanted Google to know a lit­tle more about you.

Google got a lit­tle smarter today.

“Barry Eichen­green and Kevin O’Rourke have an alarm­ing paper in Vox EU, show­ing that if you take a global view, the world slump since early 2008 is as bad or worse than the slump from 1929–30.” That’s scary.

Facebook’s newest photo stor­age system.

That’s almost funny.

Good job Ford.

Talk­ing about the under­cover reporters work­ing ille­gally in Burma to report about the protests and the goverment’s harsh reaction.

“Over­turn­ing 2,000 years of reli­gious doc­trine, an out-of-breath and vis­i­bly flus­tered Pope Bene­dict XVI announced Sun­day that the ter­mi­na­tion of unwanted preg­nan­cies was now “com­pletely and per­fectly accept­able in the eyes of God.”” Man The Onion is really good.

Awe­some.

Friend­Feed becomes newer, bet­ter, faster.

Why??

” One of the world’s most famous sky­scrap­ers — the Empire State build­ing in New York — is going green. A project is under­way to reduce the amount of energy used in the build­ing by more than a third, sav­ing mil­lions of dol­lars a year. ” Cool.

“A list com­piled by the Ger­man indus­tri­al­ist Oskar Schindler has been dis­cov­ered by a researcher at a library in Aus­tralia.” Very cool.

Very cool new design for Friend­Feed, highly rec­om­mend you try it out.

Short but interesting.

So the Storm 2 will include some­thing that should have been in the first.