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Datawocky: The story behind Google’s crawler upgrade. How Google is crawling data accessible only through forms. Ars Technica: Red light camera monkey business may be a national trend. More on short yellow lights designed to result in red light camera tickets. Wide Awake Developers: Amazon Blows Away Objections. How Amazon is expanding the capabilities of its [...]

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soapUI. The Web Service, SOA and SOAP Testing Tool. Combine stats not created equal. Which statistics collected at the combine correlate with NFL success for running backs, and which are meaningless? This is a sports story, but the lesson is for everyone. Just because you measure something doesn’t mean it’s important. Marginal Revolution: Incentives [...]

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Washington Post: Memo: Laws Didn’t Apply to Interrogators. The White House has finally released the John Yoo memo that dismantled the rule of law to Congress. Philadelphia Daily News: NFL Films is taking shots. It’s sad but not surprising that NFL Films is falling out of favor with the NFL. This is one of those decisions [...]

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Jason Kottke: Our collective recent history, online. A collection of magazine archives available online. Putting archives online is cheap, and you can put ads on old stuff just like you can jwz: Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!. Everybody is linking to this, but who cares? jwz has put the original Mozilla Communications [...]

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Exposure: Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris on the photographs from Abu Ghraib in the New Yorker. Morris has a new documentary on Abu Ghraib coming out on April 25 called Standard Operating Procedure. It’s tough to believe that Donald Rumsfeld and George W Bush will never go to jail after reading this article. Marginal [...]

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Paul Krugman: How close are we to a liquidity trap? google-collections is a Java library that builds on the Java collections framework. It’s listed as an alpha product but has apparently been in use in production systems at Google for years. My guess is that Josh Bloch is the creator. Turns out there’s an Acknowledgements page [...]

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The word is that the Fed is going to cut overnight interest rates by 100 basis points this week. That’s 1% to you and me. It would lower the rate to 2%. I’m wondering what effect this will have in terms of arresting the current economic crisis.

The fed funds rate (which is explained in [...]

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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 [...]

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Why is it that people keep publishing articles about the economic philosophy that underpins Barack Obama’s policy proposals without publishing similar articles about the other Presidential candidates? This time, Noam Scheiber writes about Obama’s economics. I find the pragmatism of a behavioral economics-based approach very appealing.

There’s a ton of good stuff in the article, [...]

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Andrew Leonard posts today about Barack Obama’s views on economics. It’s the best analysis I’ve yet seen of Obama’s economic philosophy, and is a bit of a deeper look than the one provided in the New York Times article I’ve linked to a couple of times. Leonard describes Obama’s economic orientation as left-libertarian, which probably [...]

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