2008 Readings

• The Resentment Strategy (Op-Ed - NYTimes.com)
• Palin pressured Wasilla librarian: Gov. Sarah Palin (adn.com)
• Study: heavy mental effort leads to much bigger meals (Ars Technica)
• Palin's stall (ADN Editorial | adn.com)
• Cindy McCain's $300,000 Outfit (Politics and Power Blog: vanityfair.com)
• Fired Alaskan Official Says Palin Hasn't Been Truthful (ABC News)
• Be sure to read Chrome's fine print (Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News)
• McCain Manager: 'This Election is Not About Issues' (The Fix)
• Bumping games: how American redefined ‘denied boarding’ (elliott.org)
• The Obama Plotters: The Republican Double Standard In Law Enforcement Made Manifest (Firedoglake)
• Mac text editor BBEdit hits version 9 (Ars Technica)
• ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors (The Blotter)
• U.S. Killed 90 in Afghan Village, Including 60 Children, U.N. Finds (NYTimes.com)
• Draft: To Spend Is to Tax (Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong)
• How Big of a Deal Is Income Inequality? A Guest Post (Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog)
• Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole (Threat Level from Wired.com)
• A Photobucket Bonanza, for Insiders (Wall Street Journal)
• McCain's Georgian Hyperbole: Exaggerating threats is a feature, not a bug, of McCainite neoconservatism, and reveals much about what kind of president he'd make. (Reason Magazine)
• Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds (Wired)
• Uncovering The Dark Side of P4P (TorrentFreak)
• Red Light Cameras Don't Work (Schneier on Security)
• Amazon Offers Virtual Block Storage (Artima Developer Spotlight Forum)
• The Truth About Russia in Georgia (Michael J. Totten)
• IE8 and Privacy (IEBlog)
• Build One to Throw Away (ongoing)
• Yahoo scales its web analytics database to petabyte range (DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services)
• A Pundit Not a President (democracyarsenal.org)
• Airlines Have Bumped 343,000 Passengers This Year (Consumerist)
• Enterprise: Enterprise Tells Post-Op Patient To Drive 400 Miles On A Faulty Tire (Consumerist)
• Are the F.B.I.s Probabilities About DNA Matches Crazy? (Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog)
• State of the Nation (Daily Kos)
• Doubts over the anthrax case intensify -- except among much of the media (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• Let's chuck the drinking age (The Denver Post)
• The right and men who live off their second wives' inherited wealth (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• EMI/Virgin Records Sues Platinum Selling Band For $30 Million... Despite Not Paying Them A Dime In Royalties (Techdirt)
• Was JavaScript a mistake? (Fatal Exception | Neil McAllister | InfoWorld)
• I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button (Election 2008 | AlterNet)
• Watch-Listed Fliers Can Sue, Appeals Court Rules (Threat Level from Wired.com)
• Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century" (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• My experience at IndyMac (General Real Estate, Mortgage, and Economic Discussions - Appraisers Forum)
• Citizens' U.S. Border Crossings Tracked (washingtonpost.com)
• America's role in the Russo-Georgian war (The Boston Globe)
• Jesus Made Me Puke (Rolling Stone)
• How The Democrats Can Blow It ...In Six Easy Steps (Rolling Stone)
• McCain's Choice (The Washington Monthly)
• Colleges: Drinking age 'not working' (baltimoresun.com)
• A Lightweight Validation Framework Based on Annotations (JavaWorld's Daily Brew)
• The candidates define ‘rich’ (The Carpetbagger Report)
• How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America (AlterNet)
• Cargo Cult Methodology: How Agile Can Go Terribly, Terribly Wrong (CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership)
• Next Generation in Applet Java Plug-in Technology (java.sun.com)
• Does Anyone Really Care About Desktop Java? (Bruce Eckel)
• IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.4 Takes Off (IntelliJ IDEA Blog)
• ECMAScript Harmony (Brendan Eich)
• OpenSecrets | Troops Deployed Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama (Capital Eye)
• Open Source Copyrights Legally Enforceable, Appeals Court Rules (Open Source -- InformationWeek)
• Obama campaign issues rebuttal to book's claims (The Associated Press)
• Sun: Mobile dev tool heals fragmentation (InfoWorld | News | 2008-08-14 | By Paul Krill)
• MBTA published checksum info in court filings (ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com)
• The Google black hole (By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine)
• Cities and Ambition (Paul Graham)
• Application Rewrites after Acquisitions: How Large Software Companies Destroy Startup Value (Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life)
• What Is the Future of Suburbia? A Freakonomics Quorum (Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog)
• Why Acquisitions Fail (James Robertson)
• Police Turn to Secret Weapon: GPS Device (washingtonpost.com)
• Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters (Media Matters)
• Battle of the bins: Have new baggage fees led to slower boarding? (Upgrade: Travel Better)
• What's Conservative about the Pledge of Allegiance? (Cato Institute)
• The Noncompete Ruling Won’t Change Anything, Anywhere (TechCrunch)
• The Anatomy of a Subway Hack (Reasonable Deviations)
• Electronic Privacy in Jeopardy (HotHardware)
• 'Twas Brillig (JavaWorld's Daily Brew)
• Missing votes spark lawsuit (Columbus Dispatch Politics)
• State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses (SF Gate)
• ‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes (Times Online)
• Vengeful passengers fight back against buy-on-board water and soda (Upgrade: Travel Better)
• Hacking Mifare Transport Cards (Schneier on Security)
• Much ado about the iPhone's 'kill-switch' (One More Thing - CNET News.com)
• Corporate PC power consumption difficult to trim (Ars Technica)
• XScreenSaver: On Toolkit Dialogs (Jamie Zawinski)
• Standing Against License Proliferation (Google Open Source Blog)
• Former network engineer sues Apple over its IT sweatshop (Ars Technica)
• EFF launches Coders' Rights site at Black Hat conference (Ars Technica)
• Massive faux-CNN spam blitz uses legit sites to deliver fake Flash (Computerworld)
• Sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA) holdings reduced by Vanguard Group Inc (MFFAIS)
• Sun Microsystems Reports Final Results for Full Fiscal Year and Fourth Quarter 2008 (Al Bawaba)
• A photo that can steal your online credentials | InfoWorld | News | 2008-08-01 | By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (InfoWorld | News | 2008-08-01 | By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service)
• Slate Revisited (Media) (Matthew Yglesias (August 01, 2008))
• Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals (NYTimes.com)
• Hard-Wired for Fairness (Economist's View)
• Wanting the White House in the worst way (Salon.com)
• Profit at Sun Microsystems Falls 73 Percent (NYTimes.com)
• Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers (washingtonpost.com)
• Still Banned in Beijing (David Wallechinsky: Huffington Post)
• Matthew Paul Thomas » Blog Archive » Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it (Matthew Paul Thomas)
• Fixing the structural ills of US biomedical research (Ars Technica)
• Opt-in or opt-out? Street View case echoes privacy debate (Ars Technica)
• Fuel cell improvements raise hopes for clean, cheap energy (Ars Technica)
• Hands on: Delicious 2 cleans up social bookmarking (Ars Technica)
• Low-end grudge match: Nano vs. Atom: Page 6 (Ars Technica)
• Creating Java Enum Objects at Runtime (ServerSide)
• Security: Homeland Security Can Snatch Your Laptop at the Border, No Questions Asked (Gizmodo)
• Red Hat chief: 'The clouds will all run Linux' (ZDNet.co.uk)
• What Product Reviewers Never Tell You (Columns by PC Magazine)
• A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass... (Poul-Henning Kamp)
• Good System, Bad System - Starbucks - company culture (How Hard Could It Be?)
• Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use (CNN.com)
• Repeating fact-checked lines (First Read - msnbc.com)
• Jason Furman on the Tax Policy Center's Analysis of McCain (Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong)
• ENGINEERS' DREAMS (George Dyson)
• Check My DNS (Dox Para)
• Middle East: Palestinians 'routinely torture' rival detainees (World news | The Guardian)
• iCal Sucks Hugely (ongoing)
• Justice Dept. Report on Hiring Finds Violations (NYTimes.com)
• DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it (Ars Technica)
• Researchers could face legal risks for network snooping (Surveillance State - CNET News.com)
• Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up (NEWS.com.au)
• Tsa: Do You Have Any Naked Pictures Of Your Mother? The TSA Does (Consumerist)
• Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue (InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-18 | By Paul Venezia)
• CherryPal out sweetens Apple with 2W, ultra-cheap PC (The Register)
• On Dan's request for "no speculation please" (ADD / XOR / ROL)
• Ohio Attorney Files to Lift Stay on '04 Election Case, Cites Allegations, Evidence of Massive Fraud by a Number of GOP Operatives (The BRAD BLOG)
• Soldier in famous photo never defeated 'demons' (The Raw Story)
• Domestic Disturbances (Trust Buster - Judith Warner)
• Terrorism Funds May Let Brass Fly in Style (washingtonpost.com)
• Sun lays off approximately 1,000 employees (InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-11 | By Paul Krill)
• Google Teh Evil? Cloud economics, BigTable + GFS vs. EU privacy laws (Process Perfection)
• Ropes: Theory and practice (IBM developerWorks)
• Steve Benen: Jukebox John Keeps Changing His Tune (Politics on The Huffington Post)
• Gramm Refers to ‘Nation of Whiners,’ Touching Off Rebukes (NYTimes.com)
• Health Reform You Shouldn't Believe In (The American Prospect)
• Common Sense Health Care (: A Guest Post - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog)
• "Want some torture with your peanuts?" by Aviation Security (Washington Times)
• Bridging the Designer-User Gap (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
• Testing Anti-Patterns: Underspecification (puts Blog.new(”nonsense”))
• President BUSH PARDON's HIMSELF against POTENTIAL WARCRIMES (CNN)
• TDD Anti-Patterns (James Carr)
• Why Can't Microsoft Ship Open Source Software? (Coding Horror)
• NYC PARKS OVERRUN BY HOS, JUNKIES, AND PUSHERS (New York Post)
• The A-Z of Programming Languages: INTERCAL (Computerworld)
• PriestOFF! Clergy Repellent Spray (YouTube)
• 40% of surfers don't bother with browser security updates (Ars Technica)
• Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount (Ars Techhnica)
• Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action (Clipperz online password manager)
• Go Home, Bill | PBS (I, Cringely . The Pulpit)
• Software predicts fate of death row inmates (TG Daily)
• McCain Campaign Lied to Reporter About Public Finance Loan (The Jed Report)
• Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control (AlterNet)
• Cameras help Palestinians 'Shoot Back' at violent settlers (Yahoo! News)
• Return of the ’70s Weirdos (Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com)
• Non-compete pacts called bad for tech innovation (Network World)
• Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition (War Room - Salon.com)
• McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion (CNN.com)
• McCain in NH: Would Be "Fine" To Keep Troops in Iraq for "A Hundred Years" (MotherJones Blog)
• McCain blasts Obama's and Clinton's attacks on NAFTA (Los Angeles Times)
• Bush, McCain plug Social Security (The Seattle Times)
• McCain economic policy shaped by lobbyist (Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com)
• John McCain Votes to Filibuster Minimum Wage Hike (Elections Blog - The Stump)
• McCain Defends Bush's Iraq Strategy (CBS News)
• The Next Slum? (Atlantic Monthly)
• Fuel Prices Shift Math for Life in Far Suburbs (NYTimes.com)
• Microsoft, the Walking Dead (Zoli's Blog)
• Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant (Seattle PI)
• Reform groups want FCC to take on product placement epidemic (Ars Technica)
• As Long As We're Talking About Michelle Obama, Did You Know Cindy McCain Was A Drug Addict? (Stephen Elliott)
• McCain Breaking the Law in Plain Sight (Talking Points Memo)
• 10 Precious Animal Species on the Verge of Extinction (Matador)
• Countering race with class (San Francisco Gate)
• How Cops Really Want to Police (Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog)
• Oil giants to sign contracts with Iraq (World news | The Guardian)
• Fight the Smears(my.barackobama.com)
• TOR anonymizing proxy servers seized during German child porn investigation (Ars Technica)
• Parsing Privacy Policies: Is OpenDNS logging data forever? (slight paranoia)
• Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? (Slashdot)
• Frequent criers: Elite fliers are ruining air travel (Christopher Elliott- msnbc.com)
• Ask a Construction Worker: A Freakonomics Quorum (Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog)
• China's Water Problems Reach Olympian Proportions (Wired)
• Spyware bill cloaks a mini-UCITA (Ed Foster's Gripelog)
• As Brazil Fills Up on Ethanol, It Weans Off Energy Imports (Yale Online)
• The Performance of Java's Lists (ONJava.com)
• Green Manhattan (The New Yorker)
• Adobe engineer heading team porting Eclipse SWT to Cocoa (Ars Technica)
• Domestic Airline Fee Chart (RickSeaney.com)
• The Media Don’t Care About The Other Kind Of Terrorists (Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite)
• Your papers please: TSA bans ID-less flight (Surveillance State - CNET News.com)
• Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor (JavaLobby)
• It's the Platform, Stupid (I, Cringely . The Pulpit)
• America's Medicated Army (TIME)
• Build your own Google (Between the Lines | ZDNet.com)
• Please Give Us Your Email Password (Coding Horror)
• Obama says DNC won't take money from lobbyists, PACs (Los Angeles Times)
• Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control (Middle East, World - The Independent)
• Déjà sue: patent troll used shell companies to repeat-sue (Ars Technica)
• Mac Backup Software Harmful (plasticsfuture)
• Save New York’s Ridgewood Reservoir (Op-Ed - NYTimes.com)
• Making off-site backups brainless: hands-on with Backblaze (Ars Technica)
• Syncing vs. saving, and the case for a home storage cloud (Ars Technica)
• From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—Part III: Page 1 (Ars Technica)
• Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 (Revision3)
• CNN/ABC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative (Glenn Greenwald)
• TJX employee fired for exposing shoddy security practices (The Register)
• Sony to Build 'Tru2way' Interactive TVs (News and Analysis by PC Magazine)
• Five Steps Dell Should Take To Address A N.Y. Judge's Fraud Ruling (The Channel Wire)
• Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• Scott McClellan on the "liberal media" (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• Google Opens Google App Engine (PCWeek)
• Court Finds Dell Guilty of Fraud (PC World - Business Center)
• Sharing Secrets (GNU/Andrew’s Blog)
• Brazilian Beetles Hold Key to Faster Computers (Wired)
• IT Wars (PBS)
• Google could pick Git to manage Android code (Underexposed - CNET News.com)
• From stowaway to supersize predator: the mice eating rare seabirds alive (Environment | The Guardian)
• Sen.: Iron Curtain swapped for Virtual Curtain of censorship (Ars Technica)
• Women and the Invisible Fist (Rad Geek People’s Daily)
• Language-Book Principles (ongoing)
• the golden spike (John Rose @ Sun)
• MF Bliki (ParserFear)
• 13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness (Little Tutorials)
• The Pinocchio Problem (Stevey's Blog Rants)
• XEmacs is Dead. Long Live XEmacs! (Stevey's Blog Rants)
• Cliff Click on the Java Memory Model, Java Compiler Technology and Multi-threading (Enterprise Java Community)
• Dynamic Languages Strike Back (Stevey's Blog Rants)
• Return of the Statically Typed Languages (Otaku, Cedric's weblog)
• Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators (ABC News)
• China's All-Seeing Eye (Rolling Stone)
• Shops track customers via mobile phone (Times Online)
• A campaign without the 'gotchas' (Los Angeles Times)
• Federal Air Marshals on the No-Fly List (Upgrade: Travel Better)
• Air marshals grounded in list mix-ups (The Washington Times)
• Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face (New York Times)
• Reality Check (I, Cringely . The Pulpit)
• Consumer Complaints Getting What You Pay For (Advice and Know-How | Reader's Digest)
• Jury Clears Photographer Who Refused to Stop Photographing an Arrest (Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection)
• Please, do squeeze the Chumby (International Herald Tribune)
• Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi (ivan krstić · code culture)
• JavaScript: The Good Parts: Douglas Crockford: Books (O'Reilly)
• The future of PHP (IBM developerWorks)
• Read the Fine Print on "Open Source" Software (OStatic)
• Killing by the numbers (Salon.com News)
• Evolution: what's the real controversy? (Ars Technica)
• Blizzard attempt to kill WoW bot bad news for copyright law (Ars Technica)
• Resisting Authority: A Personal Account of the Milgram Obedience Experiments (Jewish Currents)
• Lawyers Fight DNA Samples Gained on Sly (New York Times)
• Sun Micro Records $34 Million Loss (WSJ.com)
• Disclosures Alone Won't Solve Credit-Card Issues, Bernanke Says (WSJ.com)
• Larry Page on how to change the world (Fortune)
• Pomfret's China: The Ugly Chinese (PostGlobal at washingtonpost.com)
• Sun: Q1 Results Fall Short On U.S. Economy Issues (Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online)
• Adobe seeks to extend reach of Flash, nukes licensing fees (Ars Technica)
• Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails (TechCrunch)
• Sovereignty / Code 2.0 (Lawrence Lessig)
• Is Lessig's Free Culture just a modern Das Kopyright? (Ars Technica)
• Memory consumption of 64-bit Java, and its consequences (Steve: Developing on the Edge)
• Chinese Rights Activist Is Jailed (New York Times)
• Annals of Surveillance: State Secrets (The New Yorker)
• More on Texas Border Wall (Sibley Guides Notebook)
• Stop using Ajax! (Opera Developer Community)
• Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime | Seattle Times Newspaper (Microsoft)
• Building Your Own Home Theater PC (Coding Horror)
• The Problem with Software Registration (Coding Horror)
• If the Secret Service Can Apologize to Wright, So Can the Media (Firedoglake)
• Monkey Patching Core Functionality == BAD, BAD, BAD (Schrade.Blog)
• Give me the lesson without the spin (Los Angeles Times)
• The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment (Content Consumer)
• Programming Languages: Everyone Has a Favorite One | April 23, 2008 (Dr. Dobb's)
• Imagethief does Beijing's new Terminal 3 (Imagethief)
• Readers' Comments: Thorpe 'not worried' about torch protests (Herald Sun)
• Sun looks to free up the rest of Java (Yahoo! News)
• iGoogle Slowly Turning Into An Application Development Platform (B.E.T.A. Daily)
• Try Out The Java Platform Detection Code (Weiqi Gao's Observations)
• Latest revelations on FBI NSL misuse raise fresh questions (Ars Technica)
• Just announced: MySQL to launch new features only in MySQL Enterprise (jcole’s weblog: Jeremy Cole’s take on life)
• Why Are So Many Fighting For Food? (ABC News)
• Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, NRA hired 'black ops' company that targeted environmental groups (The Raw Story)
• Perfectly Legal Immigrants, Until They Applied for Citizenship (New York Times)
• New Computers (ongoing)
• Corruption: Mystery Shoppers Expose Refund Anticipation Loan Abuse (Consumerist)
• Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. (washingtonpost.com)
• The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (Bruce F. Webster)
• Vista's UAC security prompt was designed to annoy you (Ars Technica)
• Are electric cars really more energy efficient? Do "green" vehicles have a worse impact on the environment than a Hummer? (The Straight Dope)
• JetBlue Insults Its Loyal Customers (My Bad Consumer Experience. - BusinessWeek)
• Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That’s Why The Yahoo Deal Must Happen (TechCrunch)
• Inheritance Tax (Jon Skeet: Coding Blog)
• Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed (ZDNet.com)
• Fire and Motion -- Leadership Strategies (Joel on Software)
• Petraeus Kills GOP Talking Point On Iraq (Firedoglake)
• How Did Yoo Manage to Leave Out Youngstown Steel? (Firedoglake)
• AP photographer granted Iraqi amnesty (Yahoo! News)
• Open source Java projects: The Wizard API (Java World)
• Great American Hypocrites: McCain's Old Packaging (Glenn Greenwald)
• 'Regional' Nuclear War Would Cause Worldwide Destruction (Wired Science from Wired.com)
• Secret US plan for military future in Iraq (World news | The Guardian)
• Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• Why modular Windows will suck for Microsoft and suck for you: Page 1 (Ars Technica)
• A Natural Treasure That May End Up Without a Country (New York Times)
• Do red light cameras work too well? (Crime & courts- msnbc.com)
• What Happened to “Free-Market” Conservatives (or Neo-liberals)? (TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo)
• Another KBR Rape Case (The Nation)
• Let’s play, ‘Imagine If A Democrat Had Said This’ (The Carpetbagger Report)
• Why Won't McCain Support Our Vets? (Video)
• Adobe: Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe's 64-bit roadmap (John Nack)
• Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Get Vista upgrade, never pay full price (WindowsSecrets.com)
• It's official: upgrade hack included in Vista SP1 (Scott Dunn)
• FAQ on Government Access to Medical Records (American Civil Liberties Union)
• Doctors order mandatory arbitration for patients(goliath.ecnext.com)
• "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics" (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• The Return of Neal Stephenso (Nerd World - Lev Grossman - Matt Selman - Technology - TIME)
• Areas of Baghdad fall to militias as Iraqi Army falters in Basra (Times Online)
• Earth to Sun (James Robertson)
• USPTO boss: IBM bathroom patent symbolic of US patent ills (Ars Technica)
• Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops AIR for Linux (Yahoo! News)
• The Dilbert Strategy (New York Times)
• Amish Paradise (I, Cringely . The Pulpit)
• Turn Your PC into a DVD Ripping Monster (LifeHacker)
• Innocent man pinched by RIAA asks SCOTUS for attorney's fees (Ars Technica)
• Spring Cleaning: Cyclotron’s Last Stand (The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker)
• Tibet - the cyber wars (BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News)
• What The...?!? Garmin Enters Cell Phone Market With iPhone Look-Alike (Mobile Blog - InformationWeek)
• The Mac mini as a Media Computer (AnandTech)
• What I Got Wrong About Iraq (The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan)
• E. J. Dionne Jr. - Another Angry Black Preacher (washingtonpost.com)
• Term Sheet Hacks: The Cheat Sheet (Venture Hacks)
• Shining a light on fluorescent bulbs (Environment- msnbc.com)
• Commentary: Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional (Wired)
• Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets 'Wikipedia' Approach Will Transform Congress (Threat Level from Wired.com)
• Silicon compound aims to superconduct at room temperature (EETimes.com)
• Evidence of New Jersey Election Discrepancies (Freedom to Tinker)
• Whistleblower exposes insider trading program at JP Morgan (Wikileaks)
• Research fuels grim trade in death (BBC NEWS | Health |)
• County's voting machines examined (The Columbus Dispatch)
• Closures: Control Abstraction, Method References, Puzzler Solution (Neal Gafter's blog)
• Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses (Gleen Greenwald)
• The Adoption-Led Market (SunMink)
• Apple snags 14 percent of US-based PC retail sales in February (AppleInsider)
• WordPerfect antitrust case greenlighted by the Supreme Court (Ars Technica)
• Iraq’s Insurgency Is Running on Stolen Oil Profits (New York Times)
• Republicans See Storm Clouds Gathering (washingtonpost.com)
• Report Shows No Link Between Saddam and al Qaeda (Rapid Report)
• Iraq: teachers told to rewrite history (Education News, Education - Independent.co.uk)
• The Romance of Empire (Foreign Policy) (Matthew Yglesias)
• Our Uncertain Economy (WSJ.com)
• A Free-Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama’s Path (New York Times)
• Google claims 'non-existent' Android beats everything but the Jesus Phone (The Register)
• FBI Tried to Cover Patriot Act Abuses With Flawed, Retroactive Subpoenas, Audit Finds (Threat Level from Wired.com)
• Missing ocean rise may be held by reservoirs (Ars Technica)
• Will plug-in hybrids stress the grid? (Green Tech blog - CNET News.com)
• Why I Don’t Support the Troops (Berkeley Daily Planet - Tuesday March 11, 2008)
• "The Spitzer Sex Sting: A Few More Questions" by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
• Some Questions About the Spitzer Incident (Firedoglake)
• Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes? (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• Intuit's Razor (Ed Foster's Gripelog)
• iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns (Surveillance State - CNET Blogs)
• 10 Rules For Startups (Misanthropy Today)
• BTW, I love Apple! (Write Hemisphere)
• Bird Long Believed Extinct Found Alive (ABC News)
• GWT 1.5 Milestone 1 now available for download (Google Web Toolkit | Google Groups)
• They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know. (New York Times)
• Bad Science Journalism and the Myth of the Oppressed Underdog (Scientific Blogging)
• Is There Really an IT Labor Shortage? (baselinemag)
• Sun: We'll put Java on the iPhone (InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-07 | By Paul Krill)
• Donkey Kong and Me (DadHacker)
• Suddenly, the iPhone is a Mobile Computer (PC Magazine)
• To Feed the Birds, First Feed the Bugs (New York Times)
• Turning Glare Into Watts (New York Times)
• Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier (Wired)
• Daylight Saving Wastes Energy, Study Says (WSJ.com)
• Fighting to Regain Right Some Felons Never Lost (New York Times)
• Jews - Marriage - Israel (New York Times)
• Naomi Klein: It's no slur to be called a Muslim (Comment is free | The Guardian)
• Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable (Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
• Obama staffer gave warning of NAFTA rhetoric (CTV.ca)
• Copyright this (Los Angeles Times)
• Kremlin may close closes the European University at St. Petersburg (Boing Boing)
• Mac vs. PC vs. Linux -- South Park Style (Compiler from Wired.com)
• UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits (developerWorks)
• William F. Buckley Jr. on Marijuana (National Review Online)
• Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo? (Bruce Eckel)
• China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope (WSJ.com)
• Swing is drowning (Dion Almaer's Blog)
• What the Hello World (Codedependent)
• Why not increase this penalty? (Marginal Revolution)
• Insurer Pays for Axing Sick Woman's Policy (ABC News)
• Getting the public to pay attention to good science (Ars Technica)
• How to Handle an Invasive Species? Eat It (New York Times)
• Why Did I Change My Mind? (AlwaysOn)
• Wanted: Someone Who Knows Nothing About the Job (-Stanley Fish)
• Domestic surveillance goes on despite expiration of law (Ars Technica)
• Judge makes lawyers pay for frivolity (The Denver Post)
• Room 101: Cutting out Static (Gilad Bracha)
• Evaluating BGGA Closures (Stephen Colebourne's Weblog)
• Sale Of The Century: The Gap Is Dead; Long Live H&M. So Do You Buy More Or Less Regrettable Clothing Now? (Consumerist)
• Fear: TSA Won't Let Parents Bring Extra Baby Food In Anticipation Of Delays (Consumerist)
• Shoplifting: Home Depot, Lord & Taylor, Walmart Hire Law Firms To Harass, Bully Alleged Shoplifters (CONSUMERIST)
• The Economics of Online Backup (Inside Lightroom)
• How Labour used the law to keep criticism of Israel secret (Politics | The Guardian)
• Gates' digital utopianism no match for China's realities (Ars Technica)
• Italy Follows Trail of Secret South American Abductions (New York Times)
• Leadfoot (I, Cringely . The Pulpit)
• The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids (New York Magazine)
• Lessig wants to build a "creative commons in Congress" (Ars Technica)
• Analysis: e-voting's success rests on chain-of-custody issue (Ars Technica)
• Ropes: Theory and practice (developerWorks)
• Private equity firm pours $100 million into SCO money pit (Ars Technica)
• Improper joinder rulings, sanctions threats don't deter RIAA(arstechnica.com)
• Giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Immigrants (Schneier on Security)
• Sumatran tigers being sold into extinction, report reveals | Environment | guardian.co.uk (Guardian)
• Senate caves, votes to give telecoms retroactive immunity (Ars Technica)
• Victim: $54 million Best Buy lawsuit stupid, but necessary (Ars Technica)
• What Our Top Spy Doesn't Get: Security and Privacy Aren't Opposites (Bruce Schneier)
• With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control' (Bruce Schneier)
• Evolving the language (Kirill Grouchnikov's Blog)
• Food prices | The end of cheap food (Economist.com)
• Culture is no excuse for China denying its people democracy (Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free)
• I remember the hope Britain once inspired (Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free)
• Tipped over: social influence "tipping point" theory debunked(arstechnica.com)
• Stranded at the airport? Don’t forget Rule 240 (TODAY: Travel - MSNBC.com)
• Sunnyvale homeowners told to cut redwoods that block solar panels (San Jose Mercury News)
• Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
• FISA Fundamentals: “Trust Us” Does Not Cut It (Firedoglake)
• The underdog is hungrier (Wheaties for Your Wallet)
• Promises of Productivity Are Often BS (PC Magazine)
• Mac OS X and the missing probes (Adam Leventhal)
• Repress U (The Nation)
• MacBook Air Haters: Suck My Dick (Call Me Fishmeal)
• The right tool for the slob (Coderspiel)
• Serious speech dictation makes its Mac debut at Macworld '08 (Ars Technica)
• Analysis: Metcalfe's Law + Real ID = more crime, less safety (Jon Stokes)
• Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow (New York Times)
• Keep Legacy Databases Away From Your Code (Typical Programmer)
• Mac OS X Tip: Create a Keyboard Shortcut for Any Menu Action in Any Program (Life Hacker)
• Google Reveals New MapReduce Stats(googlesystem.blogspot.com)
• Does Sun Buying MySQL Change Your Scaling Strategy? (High Scalability)
• Robust Action in the Topkapi Palace (Crooked Timber)
• McCain Lies His Head Off; NY Times Asleep at Switch (THE NEW REPUBLIC | Blogs)
• Where are the tears for GIs, Iraqis? (alJazeera Magazine)
• Antidepressant Studies Unpublished (New York Times)
• GOP Figure Contracted to Deliver E-Voting Machines in Maryland (Wired)
• For the Laptop Toters, a Roomier Flight to Europe (New York Times)
• Helping Dolphins Fly (Jonathan Schwartz's Blog)
• Helium Supplies Endangered, Threatening Science And Technology (Science Daily)
• How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better (DreamHost Blog)
• The deal with shared hosts (David Heinemeier Hansson)
• Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect (NPR)
• Decriminalize File Sharing (Karl Sigfrid)
• In Response to M.T.A.’s ‘Say Something’ Ads, a Glimpse of Modern Fears (New York Times)
• The Airport Security Follies (Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog)
• For years US eavesdroppers could read encrypted messages without the least difficulty (Intel Daily)
• New rules on licenses pit states against feds (CNN)
• How to recognise a good programmer (Inter-Sections)
• Super Soaker Inventor Cuts Solar Power Costs - Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Conversion System - Heat Engine (Popular Mechanics)
• U.S. courts consider legality of laptop inspections (International Herald Tribune)
• An editorial war on science (Ars Technica)
• Changing planes. (Neil Gaiman)
• Scientists Use Sunlight to Make Fuel From CO2 (Wired)
• Bad COPP No Netflix (Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection)
• Java: Evolutionary Dead End (Bruce Eckel)
• Report from Iowa: Democracy It Ain't (New York Times Blog)
• "You Don't Understand Our Audience" (Technology Review)
• Airport profilers: They're watching your expressions (Seattle PI)
• RIAA Behaving Badly; Let's Cut Their Copyright Privileges (Wolfe's Den Blog - InformationWeek)
• Highway 443: Israel's forbidden road (Independent Online Edition > Middle East)
• Meanwhile, in the West Bank (Haaretz - Israel News)
• Obama stump speech strategy of conciliation considered harmful (Corrente)
• Why PHP should never be taught. (zestyping)
• The Mythical 5% (Bruce Eckel)
• The Plight of Bethlehem (OpinionJournal - Featured Article)

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