June 2008
21 posts
Guess Who’s Picketing George Carlin’s Funeral?... →
Wow, unbelievable.
Why was the cashing out of billions of dollars... →
WatchCall center in India
An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant →
Hippocratic Oath for Scientists? →
“I promise never to allow financial gain, competitiveness or ambition cloud my judgment in the conduct of ethical research and scholarship. I will pursue knowledge and create knowledge for the greater good, but never to the detriment of colleagues, supervisors, research subjects or the international community of scholars of which I am now a member.”
Animated Sorting Algorithm Demo →
Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody... →
Pretty cool and funny SciFI story.
The net could see its biggest transformation in... →
“The net’s regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed.”
“Icann says any string of letters can be registered as a domain, but there will be an independent arbitration process for people with grounds for objection.”
I'm a "light bulb" kinda guy →
“You’ll never find a group who wears their ignorance of technology more proudly than the average business person. “I’m not a computer guy,” they’ll say with a big smile on their face. Well gee, the personal computer is only the most significant invention to come along in the past 100 years. You’d think one might be mildly curious about how it works.”
WatchCNN: George W. Bush is trying to pardon himself from war crimes
General Accuses WH of War Crimes →
“The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability.”
Study: naps > coffee, good night's sleep to combat... →
LinkedIn Architecture →
Canada's parliament votes to grant asylum to US... →
“Parliament on Tuesday voted to allow US resisters of the Iraq war who fled to Canada to stay in this country, thus avoiding military court-martial in the United States.
The non-binding motion passed 137 to 110, with support from all three opposition parties, which hold a majority of seats in the House.
It urged the government to allow conscientious objectors “who have refused or...
WatchNet Neutrality Act John Hodgman explains the Net Neutrality Act and distinguishes between a dump truck and a series of tubes.
No Way to Build an Operating System →
“At the June 2004 WWDC, Jobs blew away the MSFT engineers in attendance by demonstrating lightning fast Spotlight searches on Tiger (OSX 10.4). The court-released MSFT emails show how flabbergasted they were, and the imperative of getting the Tiger preview DVDs back to Redmond for reverse engineering. Comments by MSFT’s Jim Allchin and Lenn Pryor were priceless.”