links for 2007-11-26
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links for 2007-11-25
Time’s Columnist Joe Klein Butchers Wiretapping Debate | Threat Level from Wired.com
But Time ought to stop Klein from writing about any substantive topic, especially FISA. Because when it comes to these topics, Klein is well beyond stupid. He’s dangerous.
(tags: journalism surveillance FISA NSA)
links for 2007-11-24
Damn Interesting » The Gimli Glider
A crew of engineers from Winnipeg airport clambered into a van and headed for Gimli to assess the damage. During transit, however, their vehicle unexpectedly ran out of fuel, nearly ripping a hole in the delicate space-irony continuum.
(tags: airplane emergency story eh?)
new favorite subject line
Subject line of spam that made it past my filter a few minutes ago:
Toilet Chisel Baby Pendulum Button Festival Prison
Priceless.
blinkenlights and tofurkey day
Successful integration of blinkenlights and noisemakers:
Oh, and happy tofurkey day!
blocking facebook’s new ‘beacon’ program
Facebook has added a new advertising program called ‘beacon‘ that forces you to opt out for each website that you use that is participating, which for some people could be a lot. Why is this a problem? Trouble is, even if you opt out, what you’re opting out of is having that site place info [...]
links for 2007-11-20
Gary Bishop » Blog Archive » Text To Speech for Linux
I worked on a couple of ‘perks’ for LSR last semester. It was painful knowing that the people who could really benefit from LSR would have to fork over mad cash to get a decent TTS engine, and once they did that getting it set [...]
teredo, aka yet another reason Vista blows
From the boy-are-we-glad-we’re-not-using-Vista department:
Yes, you heard that correctly: your Vista machine will have a persistent connection to one of twelve servers on the Internet automatically and without your consent.
Thanks to Greg Brown for bringing this to our attention.
links for 2007-11-17
Idiot Legal Arguments Page 1
Take special note of the “Arguments based on fringe on courtroom flag” section.
(tags: law reference comedy)
links for 2007-11-16
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Climate scepticism: The top 10
we look at 10 of the arguments most often made against the IPCC consensus, and some of the counter-arguments made by scientists who agree with the IPCC
(tags: BBC environment policy science climatechange globalwarming)
