• 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.