Category: linkblog

“It is pure semantics to argue that an individual who makes a choice to forgo health insurance is not ‘acting,’ especially given the serious economic and health-related consequences to every individual of that choice,” Kessler writes. “Making a choice is an affirmative action, whether one decides to do something or not do something. They are two sides of the same coin. To pretend otherwise is to ignore reality.”

Bill, put the microphone down. Bill? BILL??

The great thing about the Internet is the large number of freely available, high quality time sinks.

First person interviews during the Egyptian uprising.

I don’t know why I’m surprised, or saddened, to see that the cyclotron where I cut my physics teeth as a high school student is involved in the creation of a “death ray.” But I am.

Nice concise explanation and diagram for SAML.

“Thinking and learning through principled discussions with an enemy is an opportunity, not a trap.”

For your nightmares tonight: a whole page of Judge Judy animated gifs.

Nice to know that my Delicious bookmarks could have a new home. But to replace Delicious for me, it would need a Firefox plugin that wouldn’t require me to use the Google toolbar, and an automated post-to-blog workflow.

How not to behave as a security company.

I see a bust of Thomas Jefferson in my future.

Things that I didn’t think I’d ever see, part 1: the Lord of the Rings from the perspective of an Orc.

You read that right.

Jean-Louis Gassée reads the tea leaves and digs into the future of the Macintosh market.

Expect to see more industry efforts on prioritizing the top mobile application security concerns.

Jim Webb is out in 2012. Is Tim Kaine in?

Cool tool stack for getting SVG to work all the way back to IE6.

Looking at this, it’s hard to believe that programmers haven’t embraced whitelisting. It’s just easier.

There are plenty of stupid programming tricks that are hard to unlearn. It used to be costly in PowerBuilder (the 4GL language on which I cut my teeth) to grow the size of an array–it would take longer to populate the array because it would explicitly redo the memory allocation call for each element you added. So if you paid attention to such things, you populated your array in reverse.

Wow. Of course, the question is, what happens next? The “higher council of armed forces” in charge of the country doesn’t give me much hope for a peaceful transition to democracy.

Graphical overview of the Massachusetts budget.

Mobile device market share shown in # of devices and operating profit. Great visualization.

Transact Business! Manage Monkeys!

All these worlds are yours. (Except Europa.)

Interesting SaaS authentication play.

How many shofars would it take to bring down masonry?

Q: How do you get rid of lots and lots of snow? A: Salt. An unsurprising exchange except for the persons involved.

Reading through the catalog of this upcoming auction (as Boston shutters this 78 year old printing office) is enough to make any typophile excited and/or sad.

One of the things that made me want to go into space, when I was a kid. Very cool.

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