sleepless

links for 2008-07-08

• leonardgrundyforpresident.com
  H/T to kos.

links for 2008-07-07

• Foley Named Interim Dean of the College of Computing
  sweet.
• Google's fallibility: Daycare that only an elitist could love (and afford) | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com
  Could delusion be setting in with Sergei?

links for 2008-07-03

• Sony Confirms Pulling PS3 Firmware Update -- PlayStation -- InformationWeek
  Maybe they could get the MS vista team to help them?
• New GOP group to target Barack Obama in ad campaign | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
  Boy, I never saw *this* coming.

links for 2008-07-02

• Wired Campus: U. of California Professor Paul Dourish: the Sexiest Man Alive? - Chronicle.com
  uhhh.. no. Be sure to read the comments.
• FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Lessons to be learnt from the financial crisis
  Quite thoughtful. H/T to David Ray.
• Microsoft Launches Office Subscription Service -- Microsift -- InformationWeek
  We are not blackmailing you into buying upgrades fast enough! Need more frequent blackmail than we can get with operating systems!
• Bloomberg.com:Paulson
  No chance at ALL of this happening. If *you* were an investment banker, would *you* want to be subject to the whims of a fickle market or make bets that can't fail b/c the government knows chaos will ensue if you do?

links for 2008-06-29

• Boy decapitated by roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia | ajc.com
  I will be very curious to see if this results in a lawsuit against 6 flags.
• Comparing Two High-Performance I/O Design Patterns
  (tags: Pattern nio java performance)

links for 2008-06-28

• Thuram has heart problem, football career at risk-
  PSGs (our?) season is at risk in june!

links for 2008-06-27

• pastebin - collaborative debugging tool
• Many Teens Getting Free Alcohol From Adults - washingtonpost.com
  My serbian colleague pointed out that it was *because* he drank with his family--from about age 14--that he didn't binge drink.
• Steven Pearlstein - This Recession, It's Just Beginning - washingtonpost.com
  H/T to david ray on this one.
  (tags: economics)

links for 2008-06-26

• Dig shows Paris is 3,000 years older than first thought - Europe, World - The Independent
  But, it's in the 15th...
• Time to make candidates answer on Iraq - Los Angeles Times
  I'm sorry, but this is 4 years too late. In 2004, where were the voices who were saying that being stalwart but fact-averse was a problem? Sorry, that would make you "biased" in the new definition of journalism.
• Boy George Banned From US, Imprisoned Manwhores Partially To Blame - Hecklerspray: Music, Movies, TV, Celebs, Games and Gossip
  But sadly it seems like America, the so-called land of the free, has got some issues about people chaining male prostitutes to their walls and vaguely insulting them for a bit. Just ask Boy George.

meet-ups

Last night I went to the Paris Entrepreneurs Meetup....

links for 2008-06-23

• DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter
  H/T to Trevor F Smith for pointing this out.
  (tags: amusing yahoo humor funny resignation generator)
• AhtiK Ventures » Eclipse workspace fails to start after crash - quick fix
  (tags: howto tips Eclipse)
• PC World - Business Center: Report: Google Faces Android Handset Delays
  I said vapor once, maybe I should say it again?
  (tags: android)
• Survey Shows U.S. Religious Tolerance - NYTimes.com
  (tags: religion us tolerance)
• Court rules in favor of Chinese Muslim held at Gitmo - CNN.com
  It almost, *almost* like the law matters.
  (tags: sensible court decisions why_not_to_elect_republicans)
• Breaking: Germany's Plazes Acquired By Nokia - washingtonpost.com
  Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb. This is potentially the stupidest acquisition since TimeWarner bought AOL.
  (tags: stupid business people who don't understand technology)