Random Linkage 2007-Dec-21 AM
Friday, December 21st, 2007- The ongoing debate over President Bush’s illegal warrantless wiretapping from a few years back. How some on the right views Americans’ loss of rights:
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) countered that this summer, the Congress looked at the substance of the warrantless wiretapping and decided to legalize it.
“We ought to send President Bush a letter thanking him for the program and apologizing for accusing him of violating our Constitutional rights,” Sessions said.
- America - we work to break our tourism industry one visitor at a time. Yes, she screwed up 10 years ago - that doesn’t justify the treatment she suffered nor the harm we’re doing to our country by acting this way (via boingboing)
- Are you getting enough “Hello, Kitty” merchandise in your life?
- A guide for last-minute gift shopping, courtesy of Danger Room
- The EPA has mercury handling and disposal guidelines for all your hazmat needs
- Microsoft finally breaks the silence - talks about Internet Explorer 8 just a little bit in response to criticism from the web world over Microsoft’s failure to support web standards properly
IE8, the next upgrade to Microsoft’s browser, passes the Web Standards Project’s Acid2 test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, the IE group’s general manager. “On Wednesday, Dec. 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode,” Hachamovitch said in a post to Microsoft’s official IE blog yesterday.