The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for July 30th from 12:50 to 13:42:

• Excel Goal Seek Tutorial – Learn how to use goal seek feature by building a retirement calculator in Excel | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips – Chandoo.org – could be useful. for, i don't know. settlement and stuff
• Slashdot Technology Story | Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams – another excuse for running the red light
• Naming that tune in 140 characters or less :: Lyric Rat – Ever have a catchy tune stuck in your head but have no clue what the name of the song is, never mind who sings it? Enter web site LyricRat, who searches lyrics, finds the song, and then some.
• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule – so go ahead, mr. middle manager, schedule that meeting after lunch
• http://claimconstruction.com/ – The Claim Construction Project is an ongoing research effort directed at the courts' (most especially the Federal Circuit's) jurisprudence of patent claim construction—the interpretation of patent meaning.
• Zeichick’s Take: Computers are cars – SD Times: Software Development News – The problem is that today’s computer hardware and software is so darned good that the regular upgrade cycle has collapsed.

These are my links for July 27th through July 29th:

• Dobbs Code Talk – Thanks, Tom. – "As far as I can tell, most of what we got from these methodologies was guilt, castigation, and that uneasy sense that everything we were doing was wrong."
• The Word of Mouth KFC challenge | Life and style | guardian.co.uk – Cooking from scratch enables us to do two things that the Colonel can't: use great chicken and drain the grease more efficiently. This gave us a real head start, and the results were stunning.
• YouTube – How to shark a ‘guess the number of M&Ms in a jar’ contest… – file this for the next time i encounter those darn challenges
• Drunk People Yoga Positions – o ha. turns out i have known yoga all this time. (got this from mark)
• The True Price of SMS Messages | A GThing Science Project – so, can anyone still give me a reasonable explanation why telcos are charging me a peso for every text? huh?

These are my links for July 23rd through July 27th:

• Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man – all of this has happened before
• Apparently This Is The Perfect Job | CenterNetworks – It’s not everyday you see a job posting noting requirments including: long hard hours, dead-end job, no benefits, etc.
• Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died, Technology Planning Article – Inc. Article – They crammed developers shoulder to at crappy desks provided them with equipment and expected work hours.
• Use the Stranger Test to Reduce Impulse Purchases – Saving Money – Lifehacker – When considering a purchase, picture a stranger offering you [the cash value of the purchase] or the item in question. Which is of greater value you? Which would you choose?
• Vanish: Enhancing the Privacy of the Web with Self-Destructing Data – The Vanish project proposes to give web users control over the lifespan of the data they post online, or to cloud computing services. Vanish encrypts your data, and all of it, even cached or archived chunks, become "permanently unreadable" at a date of your choosing, without any action on the part of the service provider or end-user.

These are my links for July 14th through July 21st:

• Welcome to LEO: Literacy Education Online – articles on writing. because i am still a programmer, and english is my programming language
• Canadian Developer Connection : The SOLID Principles, Explained with Motivational Posters – Robert C. “Uncle Bob” Martin first gathered the object-oriented design principles that would eventually go under the acronym SOLID almost fifteen years ago, but the SOLID principles have been making the rounds lately.
• BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Want to know how to handle all of these? – As far back as the ancient Greeks, the power of carefully crafted words has been fully understood and expertly exploited.
• WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond the Command Line – Security – Lifehacker – I like MaribelAlligator's comparison of a WEP key to a home bathroom lock, the one you can open just using a bent paperclip.
• A Wandering Mind Can Be Hard at Work – Mind Hacks – Lifehacker – If you're an avid daydreamer whose mind regularly wanders off at the most inopportune moments—like in the middle of a conversation—don't be too hard on yourself. The WSJ reports that your wandering mind isn't idle after all.

• saw http://bit.ly/AJ4cG
  while doing some research. i think i broke my brain. #
• there’ll be time enough for counting, when the dealin’s done #

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  while doing some research. i think i broke my brain. #
• there’ll be time enough for counting, when the dealin’s done #

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These are my links for July 7th through July 9th:

• Knowledge Ecology Notes » Pope Benedict XVI encyclical letter denounces excessive zeal for assertions of intellectual property rights in knowledge – The Pope's latest encyclical (a kind of churchy APA) decries "excessive zeal for … intellectual property, especially in the field of health care."
• Lifehacker – How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network’s WEP Password with BackTrack – wep – Today we're going to run down, step-by-step, how to crack a Wi-Fi network with WEP security turned on.
• How To: Fold a Dress Shirt – Folding your dress shirts instead of hanging them won't just free up precious inches of closet space, it'll help cut down on wrinkles
• Reverse-engineering SSNs from publicly available data – Boing Boing – Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out how to predict Social Security numbers from publicly accessible birth data with frightening accuracy.
• The Etiquette of Sending Back Meals – Foodie Flicks – Slashfood – Fine dining isn't always so "fine." Sometimes that delicious meal is tainted by overcooked meat, still-frozen food, caterpillars nestled in the greens or other surprises that ruin a perfectly good dinner.