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California is trying to convince some of its prison inmates to volunteer to be sent to privately managed facilities in other states in order to ease overcrowding in its prisons. How do you encourage people to volunteer to be relocated to Tennessee? Two words: marketing video.

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The conditional shuffle is a useful new coinage. Greg Sargent applies it to Tom Friedman’s support of the “surge” in Iraq, but it can be applied to all sorts of situations. Think about it the next time someone says they can support adding some huge new feature to the product, but only if [...]

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One of my favorite writers on the topic of software development discusses one of my favorite pieces of software with its author. Here’s Allan Odgaard on the future of TextMate as a product:

So one option is to hire programmers and basically build a company. Is this something I want to do? Maybe, but [...]

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The chief prosecutor in the United Kingdom, Sir Ken Macdonald, on the war on terror:

London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in their vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, ’soldiers’. They [...]

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Many are photos taken by amateurs, the rights to which Microsoft purchased:

Creative Director Jenny Lam expanded the search to Flickr and contacted people who took really interesting pictures, asking them, “So, how would you like one of your photos included among the default wallpapers in Windows Vista?” The Flickr artists were excited to [...]

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The memory card doors on Diebold voting machines are physically secured using a mailbox lock. Freedom to Tinker has the details on how you can make your own key:

According to published reports, nearly all the machines deployed around the country use the exact same key. Up to this point we’ve been careful not [...]

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Valentine’s Day is coming up, so I thought I’d post a little guide to romantic gift giving. For the longest time, I had no idea how to give a romantic gift, mainly because I didn’t understand what the word “romantic” means. I’m a guy who interfaces more with computers than with people, and who enjoys [...]

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In the comments of my post complaining about unwanted mouseover effects on Web pages yesterday, Dave Adams mentioned the NoScript add-on for Firefox. It turns of JavaScript for all domains except for those that you add to a whitelist. I’m normally in favor of using Web sites in the way that the publishers intend, [...]

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From the AP:

Microsoft acknowledged it had approached the writer and offered to pay him for the time it would take to correct what the company was sure were inaccuracies in Wikipedia articles on an open-source document standard and a rival format put forward by Microsoft. Spokeswoman Catherine Brooker said she [...]

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Netflix is buying the movies and renting them anyway. Good for them.

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