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Archive for May 2009


Bookmarks for 29 May 2009

Gordon Brown facing crisis as Labour MPs head for the lifeboats | Politics | The GuardianIn case you thought any of the remorse coming from the House of Commons was genuine, or that lessons really have been learnt, think again. MPs still don't understand that feathering their nests is wrong wrong wrong: "the Guardian has [...]

Bookmarks for 26 May 2009

Right-to-Repair Law Proposed … for Cars | Electronic Frontier FoundationThe EFF on the Right to Repair Act, which is designed to counter misuse of the DMCA by which car companies lock out anyone other than authorised dealers from being able to fix cars. (law dmca freedom eff cars )
InfoQ: REST – The Good, the Bad [...]

Bookmarks for 24 May 2009

O2 follows iPhone success with deal for next must-have gadget | Business | guardian.co.uk
O2 to get the Palm Pre in the UK… But not sure I can wait til Christmas. (palm_pre )
AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com
Urgh. Just urgh. (humour photography blogs )
xkcd – A Webcomic – Crime Scene
CSI/Monk/Numb3rs/The Mentalist/every other crime series being shown right now gets dealt with comprehensively in [...]

Bookmarks for 20 May 2009

ShouldIBackupMy.com | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk"Cristiano Betta talks us through how he built the wonderfully funny "ShouldIBackupMy.com". In this project he uses The Guardian Content API to give him information to "predict" the longevity of things you might be concerned enough about to back up." (open_platform humour backup )
10 Even Better Wolfram Alpha [...]

Bookmarks for 19 May 2009

Twitter Culture Wars at 'The Times': 'We Need a Zone of Trust,' Bill Keller Tells Staff | The New York Observer"When you’re in an internal meeting that is not public where you’re discussing policy, you would no more Twitter it than pick up the cell phone or call up one of your friends and say, [...]

Bookmarks for 14 May 2009

Scamming Twitter Trends: This Needs To Be Fixed"Currently, there’s a trending topic called #TwitterPornNames. It’s supposed to be a game to pass the time, but according to PC World, it’s “nothing more then a disguise to get users to publicly post answers to their online security questions.[...]”" (twitter security )
Digg it like The Telegraph [...]

Bookmarks for 11 May 2009

NameVoyager: Baby Name Wizard Graph of Most Popular Baby Names | The Baby Name WizardFabulous visualisation of name popularity over the years. (tools fun visualisation data names )
Tall. Eats a lot. Talks too much. – Taking a baby to a tech conference (Nemi, to #openhacklondon)"Yesterday I descended upon Open Hack London, pram and all, to [...]

Bookmarks for 4 May 2009

InfoQ: Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of LispThe godfathers of Lisp speak. But dare I disagree with John McCarthy here…? "I don't have any objection to the content and generally I don't have any objection to things being added to Lisp, because you can always not use them." (interview lisp languages )
InfoQ: Bruce Eckel [...]