Random Linkage 2007-May-14 AM
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008- NSA has guides to help you secure your operating system, browser, network and more
Archive for May, 2008
Random Linkage 2008-May-13 PM
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008- Sun’s Java Community Process changing to adopt the influence of open source. Hopefully Sun will actually do open source instead of taking the “Yes we do it, as long as people don’t expect their contributions to show up or to get credit for their works” philosophy of the past
- Microsoft trying to help open source modeling tool Blender improve Windows support? Well, maybe not so much help Blender as impede Linux and real open source
Random Linkage 2008-May-11 Sunday Stupids
Sunday, May 11th, 2008- Substitute teachers loses job to accusations of Wizardy after performing a disappearing-toothpick magic trick in class
- Wrecking dad’s $400,000 car. Bonus pic of boy calling dad
- Getaway vehicle of phail - Good Humor ice cream truck
- Normally, shooting your daughter in the leg would be stupid, but in this case, she did win a whole dollar on a bet!
Random Linkage 2008-May-09 AM
Friday, May 9th, 2008- Next-generation wireless from Sprint may be
Open Access
meaning anyone with a compatible device will be able to connect and use the network
Random Linkage 2007-May-08 AM
Thursday, May 8th, 2008- Random acts of sportsmanlike conduct
- The story of the clean room (PDF) (via Bill at DQ)
- Fat bottomed girls? Turns out, there’s a good side to big butts that Freddie and Sir Mix-a-Lot didn’t consider
- Congratulations for the EFF for forcing the FBI to play by the rules
Random Linkage 2008-May-07 AM
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008- Protect your brain in case of alien abduction
- A brief review of the environmental impact of the stars who tell us to save the planet
- Hitting snags while traveling or buying on credit just because of a name similar to the name of a terrorist? Our government’s
security
for citizens
Random Linkage 2008-May-06 AM
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008- Stuck in an elevator - for 41 hours
- Congress-critters are still trying to come up with a way to grant telephone companies immunity for breaking the law and helping the current administration with illegal wiretaps implemented after 9/11
Random Linkage 2008-May-05 AM
Monday, May 5th, 2008- GIMP tutorial on creating reflections
- Proposal to ease 25-year-old gun bans in public parks
- Quiz time: Do you know your ass from your elbow?
