Category: linkblog

How to cure and cold smoke your pork bellies to get delicious Vitamin B.

The New York Times’s API for fetching data about Congress is bounding along. Very nicely done way to think about what “the news” means in a digital setting.

We always suspected it, but the Bush administration’s claim that they turned to torture after lesser methods failed was a lie. They went to it right at the beginning and twisted the law until it looked legal. Is there still doubt that there should be prosecutions?

Incredible photo essay of Saturn from the Cassini probe.

Interesting outline of the direction that Obama would like to take with the American economy. It is probably a little premature to speculate about post-recession economic policy.

A fairly brilliant hack to “encourage” people to upgrade away from IE6. I say, the sooner the better.

A spec proposal for tying short URLs in a persistent way to an HTML document.

HTML 5 introduces additional link relations to enrich documents.

Burning a hole through a steel pan with the power of oxygen + bacon. Well, prosciutto, really.

Protesting taxation with representation.

The specific URL format for Rally burndown charts is provided for mashing with other web sites.

The constant ripples of undirected communication as a metaphor for what is lost in working remotely is only a beginning for this insightful post about how to manage a remote worker successfully.

Heh. See “Requirement: n. A statement of need by a Product Manager, seen as a loose suggestion by Development, and as a firm commitment by Sales.”

Alas. I knew I wouldn’t get a chance to go but I’m disappointed anyway.

Cool series of real (not digital) tilt shift photos of the University. My two favorites are the one showing the endzone in Scott Stadium, and the aerial view of the South Lawn project.

Watch out, all you command line hackers! Thanks, BC, for making Boston look ridiculous AGAIN.

Capsule review of “Love is a Mix Tape,” a new memoir by a UVA grad about his wife, their love and life in Charlottesville, and her early death, told through old mixtapes.

Using the referrer to send special content to Digg as thanks for framing your page and stealing your link.

The prosaic origin of a (somewhat) iconic toy. Definitely the strangest critter to ever get its own comic book.

Wonder how many web CMSes use hyperlink based deletes and no access control?

OMFG. When even the AP can’t remember what it’s given its affiliates permission to do, there’s a problem there…

Wow. Ebert kneecaps O’Reilly: “Dear Bill: Thanks for including the Chicago Sun-Times on your exclusive list of newspapers on your ‘Hall of Shame.’ To be in an O’Reilly Hall of Fame would be a cruel blow to any newspaper. It would place us in the favor of a man who turns red and starts screaming when anyone disagrees with him.”

Underscores the need for much stronger focus on computer system security. Hopefully the response won’t be as closely tied to “network security” as the Bush administration’s was. This is a network, systems, and applications problem and needs to be addressed at all levels.

Time to check out Astra.

Call me nuts, but I don’t like the idea of a service holding my account information in escrow.

37% of the UVA first year class uses a Mac, up from 4% in the late 1990s through 2003.

It’s starting to look like the beginning of a reinforcing feedback loop: students have “noticed many more Macs on Grounds recently”, “I like the way that it navigates and I feel like they are very reliable … We can always get my sister’s fixed easily when it has a problem”…

A set of brilliantly impassioned arguments about how to restructure the Globe for continued viability come down to a few main points: the paper should have recognized that it was doing a poor job of delivering its primary revenue source, ads, compared to the Internet long ago; they aren’t doing a good job delivering their primary VALUE, differentiated stories, either.

An appreciation of Marian Anderson and her role in music, and in American history.

Interesting perspective on the success or failure of Fortify’s pitch around government software security, or how not to do it.

Thoughts toward putting together an application security portfolio. Aimed more at a consultant than a business user.

Social media and press announcements, or how to break the traditional press release cycle.

Index of all the Jefferson architectural drawings.

One of our big initiatives kicks off.

A round Lego building in the enormous New Hampshire Millyard project.

Monticello in Legos. Dig it.

More secrets of round buildings.

Creating a round building with Lego. Hmm. Rotunda?

Link to Linda Ronstadt’s testimony to Congress regarding arts funding. The focus is on music education, and he’s right, it’s a stronger argument than you’d think. Well worth reading.

Seeing the sculpture it’s a little incongruous, but it’s also nice to see something that speaks to the 20th century in the middle of the Grounds, just steps from the lawn. Even if it is called “Tripes.”

To be clear, the students were protesting a policy that had been posted around the Calder sculpture that prohibited photographs of it. So there was a large gathering of students and faculty around the statue–taking photos of it. Clarifications were issued: the ban was only intended to be on commercial photography. Yay?

“Ever since I’ve become an ASS, my career has simply blossomed. With the increased credibility it offered, I’ve been able to command higher fees as well as gain the respect of vendors and merchants alike. Being an ASS is all it’s cracked up to be!” They’re missing an opportunity to have Certified Smart ASSes.

Heh. It would have been funnier if the story were only 140 characters long.

Thanks. This makes much more sense.

Please tell me why we shouldn’t just take Charles E. F. Millard, the ex-Lehman exec who made the decision to take the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s formerly safe funds into the stock market right before the economic meltdown, and hang him high.

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