Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …
- Flammable water – Yikes!
- Backward Compatible – “Legends of Music That Gets Stuck in Your Head” – NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
- Jindal Versus The Volcano – It was an asinine comment at the time, and events have showed it to be even moreso.
- Notre Dame Unleashes a Fury – Crikey.
- One Judicial Nominee In, The Battle Has Already Begun: Kyle
- Perhaps The Wolves Are Still Available To Babysit Tonight… – This site is pure comedy gold.
- Support Bush! – (As Dave expresses deep relief that this yet another thing he doesn’t have to (or, at least, doesn’t) worry about in his own personal grooming.)
- Bailed-out JPMorgan orders two new luxury jets and a deluxe aircraft hangar.: Satyam Khanna
- Blizzard to add-on developers: Your money is no good here (literally) – A shortsighted cutting off a valuable aspect of their community. They will, eventually, regret this.
- Insanity from the mailbag: a new take on the bible, evolution, and Bigfoot – Wow. Let’s just say that there aren’t many folks who are going to find much of what this person says as “orthodox.”
- TARP recipient JPMorgan Chase To Spend Millions on New Jets and Luxury Airport Hangar – Torches and pitchfor — oh, forget it.
- Judge Lets Abu Ghraib Lawsuit Go Forward – Good.
- Interview With Doyce Testerman – Twitter As A New Medium In Authorship, Pt. – Much shorter ‘half’ of the interview — I’m not sure what’s left of it for the final installment — might just be links to similar things going on with Twitter and Facebook. We’ll see.
- Will Google Chrome supplant Firefox as the power user’s browser of choice? – I’ll confess I love extensions — and RoboForm is the one most important one keeping me from trying Chrome more seriously. That said, I agree — when I got into Firefox, its big advantage over IE was that it was faster and easier. I’m not convinced it’s faster any more, and unless FF addresses core performance and stability to match Chrome, I can believe they’ll be pushed aside. Which would be kind of sad.
- FTC To Require Advertisers Using Testimonials To Show Typical Results [Badvertising] – Ah — “Results not typical” … but it’s so fun to point out those magic words after the commercial is done touting whatever it’s touting.
- Twittering With DISH Scores Free Local HD Channels [Twitter] – An interesting idea — subscribing to the Twitter channels of the companies you do business with. Hmmmm … let me see …
- JPEG compression 600 times over – This is kind of cool. JPEG is a “lossy” compression, so each generation loses a bit of info/accuracy. Here’s what happens over time, like a graphical verision of “Operator.”
- The Natasha Effect on Parents – Humans are so awful at risk assessment. We’re programmed to castrophize, which may be useful in dealing with common, socially alerted risks, but not so useful in dealing with one-off “newsworthy” events.
- In Brief: Best Tire Branding. Ever. – The original Apollo (still at the web site) has an awful font but a logo that is clever — too clever, turning a winding road into an “a”. The new one is clean and modern and (for a tire company) fun. It also arguably looks like different types of tires, making it useful as well. Not bad for a corporate logo.
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