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Links for March 25

March 25, 2008 / Rafe / 2 Comments

Los Angeles Times: The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Blog. One of your more erudite former athletes.
Bruce Schneier: The Security Mindset. I envy it, but it’s not how my mind works.
The American Prospect: The Obama Doctrine. An attempt to discern Barack Obama’s general philosophy on foreign policy.
Jim Henley: Henley Everywhere 2008alt. When you were as right as he was, you get to gloat a little.
O’Reilly Radar: Paging systems and Conference Bridges for startups & small teamsr. Useful strategy for responding to outages.

March 20, 2008 / Rafe / 0 Comments

Roger L Kay: Apple’s Icarus Effect. Linked as a reminder to avoid anything written by Roger L Kay.
Adam Sternbergh: Why White People Like ‘Stuff White People Like’. Surprisingly thoughtful analysis.
WSJ.com: The Week That Shook Wall Street: Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns
Elizabeth Spires in Slate: Why the Fed had to bail out Bear Stearns
Wired Compiler on Eric Burke’s great cartoon about simplicity: Why No One Uses Your Application or Website
TPMMuckraker: Obama Spends 3 Hours with Chicago Press to Chat about Rezko. Best resource so far on the Rezko scandal.

March 15, 2008 / Rafe / 3 Comments

Sports metaphors for Clinton vs. Obama. – Excellent top to bottom. I still contend that the rules of Quidditch prove that JK Rowling was never a sports fan.
jQuery creator John Resig demonstrates some cool JavaScript programming tricks in Search and Don’t Replace.
Fred Clark explains how rising land prices can put mobile home owners in a horrible position. They own depreciating mobile homes and rent appreciating land to put them on. The fundamental problem here is that mobile homes aren’t really mobile.
Andrew Leonard reports on home equity loan defaults. Homeowners who are behind on their loans have figured out that they can’t take your house away for not paying your HELOC.
The Great Daylight Saving Time Conspiracy – Lobbyists are busy people.
Anil Dash creates embeddable versions of his blog posts. Step aside, blockquote. I’m still trying to puzzle out the implications.
John Gruber analyzes why Apple’s iPhone SDK allows only one app to run at a time. He later posted the counter-argument.
The Obama campaign circulated a point-by-point takedown of talking points that the Clinton campaign circulated to journalists. Life imitates blogging.
kottke.org is ten years old today – An incredible milestone and an interesting design retrospective. The rc3.org ten year anniversary celebration arrives latter this year.