- Salon: The Learjet repo man. Just an entertaining article. * Dahlia Lithwick: Guantanamo is the least of America’s prison problem. “The United States, with 5 percent of the world’s population, houses nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.” * Marginal Revolution: Why U.S. health care policy is especially egalitarian. Guaranteed to undermine at least one thing you believe to be true. * crontab2english. Stop trying to wrap your brain around cron configuration. * McClatchy: Why’d Obama switch on detainee photos? Maliki went ballistic. Make of this what you will. * MySQL Performance Blog: A rule of thumb for choosing column order in indexes. Helpful. * Ruby Best Practices: Reading Ruby’s Standard Library for Fun and Profit. Solid article on reading code. * WoW Insider: Beware of Blood Elves selling mounts. A complex phishing and identity theft scam in World of Warcraft. They used to say that all Web innovations begin on porn sites. I think you can look to World of Warcraft to see tomorrow’s fraud today. * Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Page Speed. Google’s version of YSlow. * O’Reilly Radar: TOSBack: EFF’s Much-Needed Terms of Service Tracker. Tracking changes to the terms of service from popular sites. * Elder Game: Yes, the MMO Industry Really is That Bad. Cautionary tale on working in the MMO industry. * Monica Youn: Why Sonia Sotomayor was talking about race in the first place. Useful context for the “wise Latina” speech. * YouTube: R.E.M. 10/10/82 The Pier, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Old footage someone dug up. For more information on the Village Subway, see this excellent post from Goodnight, Raleigh. * High Performance Web Sites: Using Iframes Sparingly. The performance of iframes is really bad. * O’Reilly Radar: Google Squared is an Exponential Improvement in Search. Particularly interesting in light of the recent release of Wolfram Alpha.