The Bangus Ultimatum

• on my way home from work. i just keep drawing them short straws… #

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These are my links for December 19th through December 27th:

• Cygwin 1.7 Adds Windows 7 Support and Many Improvements – Cygwin – Lifehacker – Cygwin, the utility that opens Windows up to Linux/Unix/Mac-style command line powers, has updated to support Windows 7, accept more filenames with special characters, and do a whole lot more nitty-gritty terminal stuff a whole lot better.
• Four Wine Pairing Rules to Break – Slashfood – When pairing wines with edibles, there are rules. Or so we've been told.nSometimes it's OK to snap those rules in half and come up with your own adaptation.
• Charlie’s Diary: Why I don’t (usually) use Windows – Microsoft: providing pointless hamster-wheel exercises for gearheads since 1976.
• Pope passes special Vatican copyright giving him exclusive right to use his name, title, image Boing Boing – The Pope has created a special (and weirdly incoherent) copyright in his name, image and symbols.
• Access : Modellers claim wars are predictable : Nature News – insurgencies have a common underlying pattern that may allow the timing of attacks and the number of casualties to be predicted.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

• i'm afraid that if i watch avatar, i might root for the planet-conquering corporation. #

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These are my links for December 16th through December 18th:

• AT&T Has Spent Less on Network Construction Every Quarter Since the iPhone’s Launch – Operationchokehold – Gizmodo – wow. excellent way to deal with bull crap. i wonder what digging into local telco's financial statements would reveal?
• The Physics of Space Battles – Space battle – Gizmodo – What it got right is the essentially three-dimensional nature of space combat, and how that would be fundamentally different from land, sea, and air combat. In principle, yes, your enemy could come at you from any direction at all.
• Infographic of the Day: Ditch the Resume; Make a Chart Instead | Design & Innovation | Fast Company – We all know it: Polish that resume all you want, but it's gonna be "read" for 10 seconds, tops. So it makes a lot of sense to ditch the resume altogether, and create a chart instead.
• Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony – windows 7 – Lifehacker – my next pc purchase will still have windows, unfortunately.
• Comical Case Names – Lowering the Bar – funny case names. again, something you dont see often

These are my links for December 14th through December 16th:

• Santa and Satan:Separated at Birth? – By the late 19th century, Christmas in Manhattan was an excuse for the rabble to go wilding from door to door in upper-class neighborhoods, demanding booze and cash from terrified householders in exchange for an off-key (and sometimes off-color) yuletide song.
• Case Law Hall of Fame – Lowering the Bar – funny case law. now you rarely see these combination of words
• We help you find the perfect gadget | Measy – huh. a web-based decision support system for gadget shoppers
• AP INVESTIGATION: Monsanto seed biz role revealed  | ajc.com – "We now believe that Monsanto has control over as much as 90 percent of (seed genetics). This level of control is almost unbelievable," said Neil Harl, agricultural economist at Iowa State University who has studied the seed industry for decades.
• How the Afghanistan Air War Got Stuck in the Sky | Magazine – America’s mightiest engineering accomplishments — drones and smart missiles — are actually impediments to the social engineering required in Afghanistan. So with a single stroke, McChrystal took the US’s biggest technological advantage off the table. The military would have to make do without one of its most potent weapons.

• not disgruntled. but not exactly gruntled either. #

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These are my links for November 24th through December 8th:

• The Evolution of Homosexuality Boing Boing – It looks like the practice of same-sex lovin' may have evolved more than once, and for more than one reason.
• adski_kafeteri: Boys / Girls – old pics of people grouped by gender (dont ask me)
• Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) – The granularity of user decisions is much finer on the Web, which is dominated by the instant gratification of the user's needs in any given instant. Content must cater to this rapid pace.
• BBC News – Dirt can be good for children, say scientists – Children should be allowed to get dirty, according to scientists who have found being too clean can impair the skin's ability to heal.
• Modern Tech versus The Past – Crave at CNET UK – Most of us assume modern life is the peak of human achievement, but is it really?