Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- 10 Confessions Of An Insurance Telemarketer – DO NOT CALL. DO NOT WANT.
- CA Supreme Court: Stores Can’t Ask For ZIP Code When You Pay By Credit Card – Wonder if this will spread to other states — and if it covers gas stations.
- Fiendish CSS-based technique for obfuscating text – Probably not a good thing. Obfuscating data, even for good reasons, almost inevitably has bad effects (and misuses) as well.
- Science’s burden: storing terabytes of research data for decades – Data retention and future reuse is a huge problem — and will only grow in the future.
- 50 Things That Look Like Faces – Something to remember the next time someone is claiming that the face of Jesus, or Mary, or Whomever has been spotted on a wall or rock or piece of toast …
- 7-year-old boy wins eBay auction for Harrier jet, dad not happy – HA! Can hardly blame him. Harriers rock(ed).
- Mubarak could walk away with $2-$3 billion – (a) As long as he walks away, (b) there’s plenty of time to pursue the money later.
- More on the move to prosecute Bush II for torture – Well, you know, there’s now a precedent from the US itself for going into countries uninvited and kidnapping folks who are hiding from justice there …
- Realtime API for Congress – Boing Boing – See, this is just downright cool.
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