Category: linkblog

Open source command line tool for executing shell commands on a Windows box from a *nix (or Mac OS X) host.

The intersection between policy, economics, the deficit fight, and global warming just got real.

How to commit corporate suicide. Hopefully they can turn it around.

Nice salute to Steve Jobs from Jean-Louis Gassée.

Getting the industrial nations to recognize that inflation is not the only — indeed, not a relevant — economic hazard we face is going to be challenging.

“Ferriss’s books appeal to those for whom cheese, per se, has ceased to have any allure.”

Killer interactive visualization of the path of Irene.

Important lesson in leadership from Steve Jobs.

John Gruber points out that last night’s announcement is inevitable and has been heavily foreshadowed. That doesn’t make it less sad.

I’d argue that the willingness to experiment is not only at risk in large corporations.

Interesting discussion of how a blogging perspective, or at least a willingness to call bullshit, would really help the presidential race. Right now it feels more like kabuki theatre, highly ritualized and full of pointers to traditions that are happening offstage.

Yet another reason to work at Veracode. Here, if a web developer breaks the build, thy just get a rubber chicken in their cube.

Interesting overview of Rimbaud; would be interesting to check out the Ashbery translation of “Illuminations.”

The psychology of a fiat currency.

“So, who is this man? He’s the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock. He’s a non-Christian, arugula-eating, drug-using follower of unabashedly old-fashioned liberal teachings from the hippies and folk music stars of the 60s. And he believes in science, in things that science can demonstrate like climate change and Pi having a value more specific than “3”, and in extending responsible benefits to his employees while encouraging his company to lead by being environmentally responsible.”Or, why claiming liberal values are bad for business is a complete crock.

I dig the Tessier-Ashpool IT Department tshirt; I just wish the fonts weren’t so cheesy.

I want the Invisible Me app.

Laying bare the deliberate calculations that led the GOP to force the US to the brink of default and an unprecedented downgrade in its creditworthiness.

Much more sensible than cooking the fish in the dishwasher.

What’s doubly disturbing about this piece is how relevant it’s about to be for a whole lot of people.

Doing business with the Amazon App Store sounds like a bundle of laughs.

Reading this book now (Space Suit: Fashioning Apollo). Brilliant reading, both the book and the interview.

Very cool presentation about how Pandora scales.

Technical rundown of the “vulnerabilities” (default PIN codes, other weaknesses) that enabled the phone hacking to occur.

When Dino Dai Zovi and Charlie Miller both say Lion is the most secure OS you’ve seen–and these are guys that can go through older Mac OS installations like swiss cheese–you should upgrade now.

Sounds funny until you look at the statistics.

Important points: always compare apples and apples; shipped <> sold.