The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for May 13th through May 30th:

• Woman Wakes Up After Family Says Goodbye, Tubes Pulled – Health News Story – WEWS Cleveland – hug. guess you never know
• The Angry Economist – There are very concrete causes for the increase in gasoline prices. It comes down to having to pay more than anybody else wants to pay.
• » Geek Gang Signs » – so, is turbo pascal O.G. or what?
• Fairness, idealism and other atrocities – Los Angeles Times – 2. Don't be an idealist!

  Don't chain yourself to a redwood tree. Instead, be a corporate lawyer and make $500,000 a year. No matter how much you cheat the IRS, you'll still end up paying $100,000 in property, sales and excise taxes. That's $100,000 to

• jwz – the collected jwz bicycle wisdom – for the future, when we all need to get to work on bikes

These are my links for May 12th from 18:24 to 21:54:

• Dwindling In Unbelief – And the angel said unto me: Behold these shall dwindle in unbelief. 1 Nephi 12:22
• The Brick Testament – Samson Slaughters 1000 – with the jawbone of an ass. that is pretty badass, even when rendered in lego.
• Seed: Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot – The curator and the mathematician discuss fractals, architecture, and the death of Euclid.
• MacGyver Tip: Clean your keyboard with tape – Leftovers from your morning muffin stuck between your keys and no compressed air in sight? Grab a roll of tape, says Real Simple magazine:
• Phun Wiki: News – cool and fun physics simulator

These are my links for May 4th through May 5th:

• Develop Perfect Memory With the Memory Palace Technique – The Memory Palace is one of the most powerful memory techniques I know. It’s not only effective, but also fun to use — and not hard to learn at all.
• Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software – It may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC's everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available. Whether it's molasses-slow bloatware, shameless adware, anemic default apps, or "Your tri
• Delay the messages you send from Microsoft Outlook | Workers’ Edge – a productivity blog from Dennis O’Reilly – CNET Blogs – We all react inappropriately on occasion, but some of us (myself included) have a chronic case of e-mail foot-in-mouth disease. I've managed to stay on the good side of my boss since I enforced a cooling-off period before any mail addressed to him actuall
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Memory Hacks – Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you've got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted and handy. Whether it's a client's name, a password or c
• 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders – These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way. You can visit each of the posts by clicking the title.
• Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords – Everywhere you turn you've got to come up with a password to register for something or another. Whether it's the dozens of web sites that require you log in to use them, or your ATM card PIN, or your wireless network login, how do you decide on a new pass
• Warren Ellis » IRON MAN: This One Was Mine – movie version partly based on warren ellis' rendition (EXTREMIs, which i loved) better find a way to watch this movie soon
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘Sex pest’ seal attacks penguin – The bizarre event took place on a beach on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island that is home to both fur seals and king penguins.
• Is Lessig’s Free Culture just a modern Das Kopyright? – Now, the Progress and Freedom Foundation is stirring dull roots with spring rain, unleashing a fresh attack on Lessig's four-year-old book Free Culture in a paper released Monday by senior fellow Thomas Sydnor.

These are my links for April 9th through May 4th:

• Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor – (37signals) – Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-m
• They Do It With… – Chez Goodman – long, extensive, alphabetical list of * do it one line jokes
• Edward N. Lorenz, a Meteorologist and a Father of Chaos Theory, Dies at 90 – New York Times – Edward N. Lorenz, a meteorologist who tried to predict the weather with computers but instead gave rise to the modern field of chaos theory, died Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 90.
• Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? – Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, and errors – and so the question d
• Erga omnes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – In international law it has been used as a legal term describing obligations owed by States towards the community of states as a whole. An erga omnes obligation exists because of the universal and undeniable interest in the perpetuation of critical rights