Sep
3rd
Wed
3rd
Test, test. Is this thing on?
From John Gruber on twitter. Summed up by a YouTube Commenter: “She is not a vp pick she is a feeking lifetime movie.”
Sep
2nd
Tue
2nd
[Sarah Palin] asked the library how she could go about banning books,” [St. George, AK Mayor John Stein] says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them.
Nathan Thornburgh, from TIME Online’s, Mayor Palin: A Rough Record
Aug
31st
Sun
31st
Sen. John McCain’s choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate is a cynical effort to appeal to disappointed Hillary Clinton voters and get them to vote, ultimately, against their own self-interest.
Aug
28th
Thu
28th
The line starts to the left.
Whatever you think about America in the 21st century, the NFL probably works better than anything else in the United States.
NPR commentator Frank Deford comparing American football to the chaos of other sports.
Aug
19th
Tue
19th
Make Gmail always secure by default
Featured on Slashdot today is an article about how to automate Gmail password theft. You should really never input a password into a Web Page, ever, without
https:// in the URL, but I doubt that’s going to happen any time soon. Take this one little step or risk an “I-told-you-so.”
Aug
12th
Tue
12th
A website was redesigned not too long ago, and from the ensuing discussion about a typeface, you would have thought small animals had been tortured during the making of that site.
from Carolyn Wood’s Putting Our Hot Heads Together on A List Apart.
Aug
4th
Mon
4th
Posted this morning on Garfield Minus Garfield.
Aug
1st
Fri
1st
EFF's "Switzerland" ISP Tester
The Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Is your ISP interfering with your BitTorrent connections? Cutting off your VOIP calls? Undermining the principles of network neutrality? In order to answer those questions, concerned Internet users need tools to test their Internet connections and gather evidence about ISP interference practices.
Jul
30th
Wed
30th
Yahoo! Offers Refunds to Customers Who Bought DRM-Crippled Tunes
Get your money back if you bought DRM:
Yahoo has happily chosen to do right by their customers and provide full refunds for any music sold through Yahoo Music that came wrapped in what is soon-to-be obsolete copy protection.
I’ve spent a lot of money on Audible Audiobooks. I have to cross my fingers and knock on wood that they never shut down their DRM servers. That said, I’d jump ship to an affordable DRM-free service as soon as one’s available.
