Links for July 28
- In a TED talk, marine toxicologist Susan Shaw talks about the likely effects of the BP oil spill. Depressing.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounces Paul the Octopus, the cephalopod that picked the winners of World Cup games.
- Two Mad Men links: Cityscapes talks about the new offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and the Wall Street Journal provides a Don Draper hedcut.
- This American Life looks at the origins of the state secrets privilege. Unsurprisingly, its original use was to protect the government from embarrassment, not to prevent secret information from being disclosed in court.
- Joe Nocera explains how lenders are misusing credit scores.
- Niall Ferguson is a partisan hack.
- Andrew Brown discusses research that shows that monogamous cultures vastly outperform polygamous cultures.
- GM seems to be figuring out how to connect with enthusiasts.
- Teresa Nielsen-Hayden expresses the fears of end users with regard to information sharing among social sites. (More here.)
- Ars Technica runs down the rulings by the Library of Congress on how the DMCA is enforced. The big news is that jailbreaking was ruled as legal.
- Stephen O’Grady: The State of Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline?
3 Comments