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Links for April 2nd

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 that everyone will look back on a decade from now and marvel at its stupidity.
Making Light: The photograph that terrorized London. Did I ever tell you about the time that I thought that it would be a good idea to take pictures of the border crossing facility between China and Hong Kong?
FP Passport: Saudi father shoots daughter after catching her on Facebook. So sad and pointless.
The Register: Get your German interior minister’s fingerprint here. I couldn’t agree more that if we’re going to collect biometric information on everyone, we should start with the people who propose these laws.
Andrew Leonard: Paulson’s bogus plan to regulate the markets.
Wired Compiler: Watch Your Database Threads. Cool tool for monitoring MySQL performance.
Wired Compiler: Microsoft’s Office Doc Format Wins ISO Approval. Ask Andrew Shebanow why making this format the standard is a bad idea.
Jessamyn West’s new blog template is hilarious.
Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms. He’s giving away the keys to the castle here.

Links for March 31

March 31, 2008 / Rafe / 0 Comments

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 home page online. I didn’t know that the old Netscape style of making the first letter in every word really big went back to day one.
Josh Marshall: Stickin’. This is a brilliant piece of political analysis. As the Democratic nominating process has proceeded, Hillary’s chances of being the nominee have decreased. As her chances decrease, she must necessarily make increasingly extreme claims to justify remaining in the race. Now her argument is that Obama cannot beat McCain in November. What Josh doesn’t say is that the surest way for that to be true is for the Clinton campaign to make it true. Expect things to continue to get uglier.
Chris Blattman: Holy evaluation. I love everything about this blog post.

Links for March 27

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Scott Rosenberg: Give us each day our daily campaign call. The Presidential campaigns hold daily conference calls with reporters to try to manage the news cycle. Dave Winer is working to post the audio of those calls so we can all listen in. Great project.
Bzip2 mini-HOWTO: Using bzip with grep. Extremely useful shell script if your log rotation software compresses your logs using Bzip2.
Scott Jennings: Design Progression in World of Warcraft, An Illustrated Guide. Analysis of an interesting game design challenge. Building content for games is lots of work, so you want it to see lots of use. The hardcore players play mainly so they can achieve things most people can’t. How do you keep the hardcore players happy and still make the content accessible so more players get to enjoy it?

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.

Links for March 24

March 24, 2008 / Rafe / 1 Comment

Emily Yoffe: Forget Juno. Out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe. Seeming fact-based defense of marriage. I don’t have strong opinions on this either way, but it certainly seems like marriage is to be encouraged for people who would be parents. The number that stands out to me is that only 4% of mothers who are college graduates are unwed.
10 Zen Monkeys: Can America Handle a Little Truth? Great essay on the Jeremiah Wright controversy.
FP Passport: McCain’s wars. John McCain’s transformation into a neocon on foreign policy issues.
New York Times review of Nicholson Baker’s pacifist argument against World War II, Human Smoke.

Links for March 22

March 22, 2008 / Rafe / 1 Comment

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 Revolution: Why have burglaries declined? Globalization has made manufactured goods so cheap that the incentive to steal them has been reduced.
Compiler: New Wiki-Style Features Allow Anyone to Edit Google Maps. It’ll be interesting to see how this experiment works out.
Edmunds.com: We Test the Tips. Edmunds tested a bunch of “better gas mileage” tips to determine which ones will actually improve your car’s fuel economy. Driving less aggressively seems to offer the biggest bang for the buck.
Andrew Brown: The nerd is the enemy of civilisation. ELIZA creator on RMS and his friends at MIT in the 70s.
furbo.org: Vote for virtualization. Not allowing virtualization puts OS X behind the times.

Links from March 19th

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.

Links from March 18th

March 19, 2008 / Rafe / 1 Comment

The senselessness of war: A World War II German fighter pilot just learned that he shot down and killed his favorite author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote The Little Prince.
Dave Shea on Mediatyping. Presenting the right markup for the user’s device.
John McCain seems to have run into the Shiite/Sunni confusion that plagues so many politicians. There’s not really much room for confusion here, and you’d think the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services committee would have this down pat by now. This wasn’t a gaffe by the way, it betrayed a fundamental lack of understanding of the situation in Iraq and in the Middle East. I really want the person who gets “the call” at 3 a.m. to know that al-Qaeda is a group of radical Sunnis who are at war with the Shiite militias in Iraq that Iran supports. Heck, it would be nice if they knew that al-Qaeda in Iraq is not even formally affiliated with the al-Qaeda that attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.

Links from March 16th and 17th

March 17, 2008 / Rafe / 1 Comment

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 (see the comments on this post).
Paul Kedrosky: U.S. Dollar Being Turned Away in Street Exchanges. Anecdotal but scary.
Not Tony Soprano but John Adams on HBO – History News Network preview for John Adams.
The New Yorker: The Divider – Review of HBO’s John Adams that provides essential historical context for the show.

Links from March 15th

March 16, 2008 / Rafe / 0 Comments

Nicholson Baker talks about The Charms of Wikipedia in the The New York Review of Books. Great weekend read. There are times when I think that the purpose of all human society up to this point was to enable the creation of Wikipedia. (I agree strongly with Baker’s inclusionist philosophy.)
The chef at local restaurant Piedmont writes On The Use of Whole Animals to explain why they buy (and use) entire hogs purchased from a local farm.

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