Webmaster ‘netiquette May 17, 2010
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Had to come back for this. Stephen Green over at Vodkapundit has a blog post on nasty things webmasters do: Flash, popup ads, etc. Read the whole thing, including the comments. Some great stuff there. I think, in all my spare time, that I might put together at least a series of articles on this. There’s really no excuse for some of the crappy things webmasters put on their sites.
Good stuff.
Pogue on What’s *Really* Important in Technology May 16, 2009
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NY Times article on what matters in technology–not what they tell you is important:
- Camcorders. Out: Zoom; In: Wide-Angle.
- SLRs. Out: Megapixels; In: Sensor-size.
- Cellphones. Out: Coverage; In: Coverage. The problem is, the coverage claims by the various providers sucks, no matter what.
- Computers. Out: Price; In: Value. (Gee, is he talking about Macs? Yep.)
Superbowl Sunday Links February 1, 2009
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Evolution: Not Just a Theory.
Robert Kiyosaki: Conspiracy of the Rich.
Apple’s AppStore: Will it change the desktop market?
Tech Soup: Not just for kids!
Manning Early Access: ASP.Net MVC In Action.
Michael Yon: Irregular Warfare.
Belmont Club: Fun with maps.
Speculation (US Army War College, Winter ’92): The Military Coup of 2012.
MacObserver Forums: The House That Steve Built.
Omnivoracious: Ranking The Classics.
Calvin and Hobbes: Modern Day Capitalism.
Reason: The Libertarian Moment.
IBD: Drilling Down the Deficit. And HotAir’s take.
Popular Mechanics: New Green Homes.
Web 2.0: Ten Insightful Books (video).
T.J. Rodgers on PajamasMedia: Why Financial Statements are so Screwed Up.
Minneapolis Fed: Myths and Facts about the Financial Crisis of ’08.
Economist: Blockages in the money supply.
Armed and Dangerous: Timing the Entitlements Crash. Also: Why Alt-Energy Isn’t (yet, in my book).
Cato: On the Market.
Forbes: Does Stimulus Stimulate?
Michael Totten @ Winds of Change: Who Really Won the Second Lebanon War (and it wasn’t Hizbollah!).
ASP.Net: Strongly-typed DataSets.
Bush in 2006: Creation of Military Commissions to try Suspected Terrorists.
Wiki: Business Process Management. This may be the core of what we’re trying to accomplish at AIPT.
Google Search: Ethical Capitalism.
Wiki: Schrodinger’s Cat.
Professionals for Cyber Defense.
Technology Review: Sun + Water = Fuel.
Yes, I’ve been hoarding. Why do you ask?
Time for a Link Dump September 10, 2008
Posted by nukemhill in Economics, Environment, Investing, Politics (Ghahh!), Sarah Palin, Technology, WoT.add a comment
Too many open windows in Safari, so it’s time to clean up. Here are some of the things I’ve been interested in:
- Unlocking the Auction-Rate Mess at Barron’s: “Retail and institutional investors alike loaded up on auction-rates in recent years, assuming they were almost as liquid as cash. Generally, investors can opt to sell such securities at weekly or monthly auctions — or at least they could until the investment banks stopped bidding on them last winter. The result: Holders of $330 billion of securities quickly found they had no buyers, and no way of unlocking their money.” Much more where that came from.
- Alt-Energy ETFs.
- A look at the Annenberg Challenge, which is still causing quite the controversy. Stanley Kurtz over at The Weekly Standard is still digging around. I’m actually thinking he won’t find anything, but Obama and his clan certainly didn’t do themselves any favors by trying to bury the data.
- Should Google Go Nuclear? A video of a presentation done at Google by Bussard.
- Articles, at The Economist and The Wall Street Journal (here, too), on the Russian invasion of Georgia.
- Houston Chronicle on Sarah Palin’s knowledge of the energy industry. Bottom line: a lot.
- Liberal Arrogance at Bidinotto.
- How The Surge Worked. And, uh, for the few clueless wonders who still believe otherwise? It did. Even Obambi is grudgingly admitting to it. Months and months after the rest of the world got it.
- The best gaming-PC money can buy.
- Omnivoracious: The Best Business Books Ever.
Link Mecca for a New Week May 27, 2008
Posted by nukemhill in Apple/AAPL, Environment, General Interest, Judaism/Israel, Technology, WoT.3 comments
Links for perusal:
- Talk to the Taliban? Hmm. What corner to we have them backed into, first?
- Sam Harris: Losing our Spines. We’re not standing up to Radical Islam, and are losing ground. Interestingly, this is on Huffington Post. Not exactly a bastion of Classical Liberalism.
- How Stuff Works: 3G Cell Phones. Part of a larger discussion on cell phone technology.
- A primer on RSI.
- Mark Steyn: Obama an appeaser? That would be “Yes!”
- The Neocon Madrassa: The Very Big War. A pretty scary take on the next phase of the war between Western Civilization and Radical Islam. Hizballah, Hamas, Iran, and Syria pretty much are the away team. Who knows who’s going to back up Israel….
- Commentary Magazine: 1948, Israel, and the Palestinians. An annotated look at the birth of Israel and the lies told about it.
- The Weekly Standard: A Theme For McCain’s Pudding. I’m not the most conservative person, but I can get the gist of this argument: McCain can steal Obama’s thunder (Hope and Change) by demonstrating that he (McCain) has a history of reform in the Senate, and using that as the basis for his campaign. I like the idea of reform, and McCain is enough of an establishment outsider that he could just pull it off.
- Modafinil at Wiki. Shows promise for treating ADHD. Here’s the original article at JohannHari.com. Viagra for the brain? I’m liking that!
- MIT News: Hope on the Horizon. Potential economy-boosting techs.
- Status Screen Saver. Provides status updates in your screen saver on the Mac.
- MacPilot: GUI for Terminal commands.
- Round-up on Fusion Power Research at Instapundit.
- Smoking Gun on Iraqi WMDs.
Christmas Links December 25, 2007
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Some things I’ve been reading/contemplating:
- What Options Volatility is: TradeKing
- Black-Scholes applet used to calculate future Option prices.
- CSIS came out with a report claiming that Israel would weather a nuclear confrontation with Iran. I wonder at the motivations of the author. Is it:
- – firing a warning shot across the bow for Iran to pay close attention to? or
- – an attempt by someone to downplay the threat to Israel, so that more heat can be applied to Bush to ‘play nice’ with Iran?
- Clayton Cramer has more on Nanosolar. I want stock, I want stock, I want stock.
- Must-read book: Energy Victory. Here’s a blog analysis of it.
New Jersey Institute of Technology: Paintable Solar Cells July 20, 2007
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This is awesome, if it pans out. If this isn’t a flash in the pan, the company that gets this technology to sell is going to make a mint. And they should. If the energy output is greater than the amount to manufacture the cells (and they’re talking about printing sheets from home printers), then this is an enormous breakthrough.
Read the whole thing.
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