Just a couple of hours ago, Germany beat Argentina on penalty kicks in the World Cup. I was reading an article about Juergen Klinsmann, Germany’s coach which mentioned that he had replaced goalkeeper Oliver Kahn with Jens Lehmann for the World Cup. Looking at Lehmann’s Wikipedia article, I noticed the following:
A highlight of [...]
Google has released an API for allowing external applications to authenticate against its user database. I’m not going to let Google manage the identities of my users, but this product does exactly what I need an authentication system to do, so I may copy some parts of its design.
I have been using a Web-services based [...]
I just installed the Growl plugin for iTunes today, and I’m completely mystified by something. It displays album art that I don’t have in my iTunes library. How does that work? Where does it get it?
SCOTUSblog’s analysis of the Hamdan ruling is today’s must-read. The ruling invalidates the special tribunals for Gitmo detainees that the administration attempted to create, as part of a larger ruling that Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to detainees. What that means, in short, is that the Supreme Court has ruled that torture is [...]
Yesterday a Net Neutrality amendment to a larger telecommunications bill did not make it out of committee. I never had much faith in Congress to come up with common-sense regulation that would prevent the telecommunications companies from abusing their customers, but I think that the fight was important anyway. It enabled people to state [...]
I had all sorts of things I wanted to say about Warren Buffett donating his fortune to Bill Gates’ foundation, but then Jacob Weisberg went ahead and said it all for me. Just read what he wrote.
A college buddy of mine kept a fortune in his wallet with his driver’s license. It read, “Today’s vice is tomorrow’s virtue.” Ironically, this guy went on to become a police officer in the Houston Police Department, but that’s beside the point. A study shows that his favorite fortune was pretty much correct. Take a [...]
Tim Bray posts that an answer to a tough technical problem came while mowing his lawn. I don’t have a lawn any more, but when I did, I often did my best thinking while mowing. Unlike Tim, I really enjoyed mowing. So much so, in fact, that I mowed my lawn and the next door [...]
I have no idea whether a couple of famous liberal bloggers behaved in an unethical manner by secretly pumping candidates that were giving them cash for political consulting. If they were, then they deserve to be exposed and chided or whatever. What I found interesting was how making allegations about people automatically puts them and [...]
I guess today I’m just going to comment on stuff I saw at BoingBoing, but I couldn’t pass up the story about the “independent state” of Sealand being destroyed by fire yesterday. If you haven’t read about Sealand, it’s an offshore platform that was turned into a “micronation” by its owners. You can read all [...]