links for 2008-06-24

Hi-larious parody of the faux science of audiophiles.

This is really depressing.

Missed this on Friday. This is why you don’t let morale slip in your call centers.

Wikipedia norms say “no original research” but in the case of breaking news that doesn’t always stick.

Sounds like a good way to build another Web 2.0 name generator. BurlyDrive! For the unbreakable hard drive! (I want credit on that name if a startup ever uses it btw.)

Congrats to Doc for getting through a nasty bout with pancreatitis.

Two masters for the new Mudcrutch album: one with compression, one without.

Waiting for Obama to take unambiguous positions to define himself to voters. He’s got plenty of good ones to choose from.

Summer reading? A novel that treats the fallout of the Tiananmen massacre is unlikely to be read in China, but sounds like a good perspective for the West.

Fighting against the gingko. I miss the stench of those trees between the Rotunda and the Corner in the fall.

Charles Wright on summer.

Ruby might be a good candidate to start looking at systematically for vulnerabilities.

A nice survey of the art and science of quoting on the web.

It’s on my bookshelf, but I didn’t remember how cranky and brilliant Dowding’s book was.

Domains include pingadw.com, alzhead.com, pingbnr.com, coldwop.com, adwbnr.com, bnrcntrl.com, chinabnr.com. At least one service that I use has been infected (and temporarily delinked).