2008 Readings
- Capstone projects and time management
(Joel on Software)
- Where are the free-market champions? Not on Wall Street.
(washingtonpost.com)
- Why hasn't Vista sold well?
(Marco.org)
- British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- Closed Border, closed economy, closing opportunities
(eaves.ca)
- Guardian gagged from reporting parliament
(Media | The Guardian)
- Recruited by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini
(World news | The Guardian)
- The Coming HTML 5 Train Wreck
(XML Today)
- Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize
(Times Online)
- DNC official: GOP siding with terrorists
(Ben Smith - POLITICO.com)
- Long-term storage of values
(Message from Brian Hurt)
- LPC: 25 years of X
(LWN.net)
- Echoes from the Stone Age
(Bob Martin)
- A dying Sun shows how the Java brand was wasted
(JavaWorld's Daily Brew)
- Criminalizing everyone
(Washington Times)
- The Politics of Spite
(NYTimes.com)
- Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?
(Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian)
- The BBC is encrypting its HD signal by the back door
(guardian.co.uk)
- User-friendliness and fascism
(Democracy in America | Economist.com)
- Why Learn New Languages? Being Outlived by C++
(Artima)
- Is Scala really more complicated than Java?
(Artima)
- Naming Tips
(Software Engineering Tips)
- For a 9/10 America
(Will Wilkinson)
- How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
(NYTimes.com)
- Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty
(The New Yorker)
- Java vs C performance... again...
(Azul Systems - Cliff Click Jr.’s Blog)
- Make Interfaces Easy to Use Correctly and Hard to Use Incorrectly
(Scott Meyers)
- Java Posse #277 Feedback: Not a view from an ivory tower
(Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog)
- Project Coin: The Final Five
(Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog)
- Project Coin: Solidarity with C++
(Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog)
- Innocent but Dead
(NYTimes.com)
- Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
(Politics and Law - CNET News)
- New York MTA threatens blogger, asserts copyright over schedule
(Greater Greater Washington)
- A Journalist's Loss of Faith and Discovery of Deeper Truths
(Media Channel 2.0 — Blog)
- We need a history lesson about Nazis
(Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com)
- Is intimate personal information a toxic asset in cloud datacenters?
(O'Reilly Radar)
- Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage
(Rick Perlstein)
- Open-Source group announces jJava
(Code To Joy)
- Snatching Rights On the Playa
(Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
(Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Big business America
(Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com)
- Cave Complex Found Under Giza Pyramids
(Discovery News)
- US economic myths bite the dust
(Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk)
- GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward
(ACM Queue)
- How American Health Care Killed My Father
(David Goldhill)
- Interrogation Inc. - A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails
(NYTimes.com)
- Health Care In Exactly 25 Words
(Psychology Today)
- The "death panels" are already here
(Salon News)
- Is Obama Punking Us?
(NYTimes.com)
- Continental imprisons 50 passengers overnight in grounded plane with no food, overflowing toilets - Boing Boing
(boing boing)
- Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch
(Boing Boing)
- You Do Not Have Health Insurance
(The Baseline Scenario)
- I’m not Renewing Membership in the iPhone Developer Program
(Accidental Technologist)
- The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty
(The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution)
- Republicans Reveal Their Hypocrisy On Health Care, Refuse To Support Bill To Kill Government-Run Medicare
(Think Progress)
- Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’
(Think Progress)
- Announcing release of HadoopDB (longer version)
(DBMS Musings)
- "All I do is work here"
(Seth's Blog)
- Crooked Cops Caught on Dash Cam Video
(NBC Miami)
- Health Insurance Consumer Protections
(whitehouse.gov)
- Embrace technical debt
(Lessons Learned)
- Dual Licensing for Infinitest
(Radyology)
- The Henry Louis Gates "Teaching Moment": Put the race talk aside: the issue here is abuse of police power, and misplaced deference to authority
(Reason Magazine)
- Ramen Profitable
(Paul Graham)
- OSCON: The saga of MySQL
(O'Reilly Radar)
- My Sys-Con Nightmare
(Aral Balkan)
- The Map of Israel is Complicated – or is it?
(UMW Regional GeogBlog)
- Yahoo Nukes Man's Photos Over Obama Comments
(Yahoo - Gawker)
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
(Paul Graham)
- The Small Print Project
(ReasonableAgreement.org)
- You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft
(Microspotting)
- Who Ya Gonna Call? App Busters!
(Cringely on technology)
- Putting Max on the Back Burner
(Three Rivers Institute)
- Letter to Delta
(Andy AzulA)
- Why I (A/L)GPL
(Zed Shaw)
- Calorie restrictive eating for longer life? The story we didn’t hear in the news
(Junkfood Science)
- The Case Against John Yoo
(The Anonymous Liberal)
- SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution (And What To Use Instead)
(Adam Wiggins)
- Scientist shortage? Maybe not
(USATODAY.com)
- Mono outpaces Java in Linux desktop development
(SD Times: Software Development News)
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth: We can surpass Apple in two years
(Download Squad)
- New GOP "Racist" Headache
(The Daily Beast)
- Not Lonely at All
(Matt Mullenweg)
- Housing Minister: Spread of Arab population must be stopped
(Haaretz - Israel News)
- The Future: Part One
(Headius)
- Scala as the long term replacement for java/javac?
(James Strachan's Blog)
- Google code cloud punts on-demand embarrassment
(The Register)
- Obama 'Concerned' About DFHs Attacking Centrist Dems over Health Care Reform. Gee, I Wonder Why?
(Crooks and Liars)
- IBM's Blindfolded Calculator
(Forbes.com)
- Forgotten Refactorings
(behind the times)
- Glenn Beck and Michael Scheuer WANT and WISH For Another Terrorist Attack in the U.S.
(Fox News)
- The suppressed fact: Deaths by U.S. torture
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- No More Java 7
(Stephen Colebourne's Weblog)
- U.S. government seeks more data on Oracle-Sun deal
(Reuters)
- How to get ssh server fingerprint information
(Andreas Bernauer's personal blog)
- Eclipse Galileo for Mac: Cocoa or Carbon?
(Either You Succeed or Explain)
- New Features in Eclipse 3.5
(Kennard Consulting's Blog)
- Why is it that Apple always seems to get to the future first?
(Serotek Blog)
- Will high speed rail kill the airline star?
(Upgrade: Travel Better)
- Liberal
(Eschaton)
- how to tell a geek
(Catherine: pyOraGeek)
- The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Financial Sector Regulation
(Robert Weissman)
- Union Busting Ended My Love Affair with a Beer
(Mike Elk)
- Why Does Chamber of Commerce Favor Arbitration for Workplace Rape Victims, But Oppose It for Union Workers?
(Art Levine)
- Nathan Bedford Forrest Has Beautiful Eyes
(Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- Detainee says he lied to CIA in harsh interrogations
(Los Angeles Times)
- CIA Says It Misjudged Role of High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaida, Transcript Shows
(washingtonpost.com)
- Encrypt the Cloud, Security Luminaries Tell Google - Update
(Wired)
- Obama's Gratuitous Insult To Gay Couples
(The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan)
- Giz Explains: Every Video Format You Need to Know - Video
(Gizmodo)
- The Java NIO.2 File System in JDK 7
(Sun)
- Here we go again – why Mono doesn’t suck
(APEBOX.ORG)
- Zero and Shark: a Zero-Assembly Port of OpenJDK
(java.net)
- Cryptographic Right Answers
(Colin Percival)
- Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames
(Anil Dash)
- Lightning Strike Triggers Amazon EC2 Outage
(Data Center Knowledge)
- The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past 40 Years: Mr. Luce's mag does satanism, porn, crack, Pokemon, and more!
(Reason Magazine)
- Economic Scene - How the U.S. Surplus Became a Deficit
(NYTimes.com)
- JavaOne 2009 – slides are out
(Find Time for Java and more!)
- Supreme Court Justices and "Policy Implications":
(The Volokh Conspiracy)
- Java One 2009 Day 1
(Cay Horstmann's Blog)
- Java One 2009 Day 2
(Cay Horstmann's Blog)
- Java One 2009 Day 3
(Cay Horstmann's Blog)
- AppEngine doesn’t fit the needs of startups on the runway
(Kent Beck)
- Java One 2009 Day 0
(Cay Horstmann's Blog)
- Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
(CommonDreams.org)
- A Sotomayor core dump
(Julian Sanchez)
- How to Write an Equality Method in Java
(Martin Odersky)
- Goodbye, GM
(Michael Moore)
- Death Penalty Disgrace
(NYTimes.com)
- Reagan Did It
(NYTimes.com)
- Lessig's Change Congress Accuses Democratic Senator of Corruption
(Mother Jones)
- Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'
(Telegraph)
- But I Don't Want To Trust the Cloud
(1 Raindrop)
- Torture by Any Other Name
(Allen Keller)
- Former Interrogator Rebukes Cheney For Torture Speech
(Huffington Post)
- Pony Fail
(Thermal Noise)
- Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths
(McClatchy)
- How do the Republicans Do It?
(This Modern World | Salon Comics)
- Guice Deuce
(Google Code Blog)
- Critical Mac OS X Java Vulnerabilities
(Landon Fuller)
- Ventura And Hasselbeck Rumble Over Waterboarding On The View
(Huffington Post)
- Obama's embrace of Bush terrorism policies is celebrated as "Centrism"
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- Memo to O'Reilly: Detainee-photo uproar a reminder that torture always puts our soldiers at risk too
(Crooks and Liars)
- The Stripper Pattern
(Ayende Rahien)
- Java Needs A Cloud Profile
([on Simon Phipps, SunMink])
- Top 10 features you'll love about Android 1.5
(Cell Phones & Mobile Device Technology | Geek.com)
- The NYT Finally Prints "Torture"
(Andrew Sullivan)
- Sun Microsystems: Guilty of Corrupt Practices?
(John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD)
- A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
(One Div Zero)
- An unthinking programmer's guide to the new C++
(The Register)
- Tortured Logic
(New Republic)
- Why Has the U.S.-Owned Auto Industry Failed in North America?
(charles hugh smith)
- The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy
(Good Math, Bad Math)
- Employee (almost) chronicles Sun's top 10 failures
(The Open Road - CNET News)
- When Israel Confronted and Rejected Torture
(NYTimes.com)
- Things That Don't Surprise Me Anymore
(James Boyce)
- Now Hiring! If You're Young
(The New York Times)
- Inclusive Design Part 2
(AskTog)
- MBA: Mostly bloody awful
(Background Briefing)
- Unfair and Deceptive Data Trade Practices
(Schneier on Security)
- Why Email Clients Need to Change
(Alistair Croll)
- Democratic complicity and what "politicizing justice" really means
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- Obama legal team wants to limit defendants' rights
(News Talk Radio 77 WABC-AM)
- Of Course It Was Torture
(Cato Institute)
- Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?
(Between the Lines | ZDNet.com)
- Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems
(NYTimes.com)
- Many languages, and in the runtime bind them
(Google App Engine Blog)
- Hacker Claims Credit For Amazon's Gay-Themed Book 'Glitch'
(PC World)
- Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go
(Chronicle.com)
- What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
(Sun)
- Floating point numbers are a leaky abstraction
(The Endeavour)
- Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- Classic Mistakes Enumerated
(Steve Mcconnell)
- Spark Capital Backs Brownsberger’s Bill to Ban Non-Competes
(Xconomy)
- "I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD"
(Salon News)
- Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world
(FT.com)
- Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes
(Forbes.com)
- Save American Jobs: Close Your Chase Account
(Emptywheel)
- Microsoft: Layoffs for Some, Visas for Others
(BusinessWeek)
- MySQL Doesn’t Always Suck; This Time it’s AMD at time to bleed
(Joe Damato)
- Why Didn't Ashcroft-the-Christian Stop The Torture?
(Steven Waldman)
- Twitter on Scala
(Artima)
- Inclusive Design Part 1
(AskTog)
- One-Third of U.S. Bird Species Endangered, Survey Finds
(NYTimes.com)
- Obama’s Ersatz Capitalism
(NYTimes.com)
- Five Whys
(Lessons Learned)
- Bush's Torture Rationale Debunked
(White House Watch)
- It is okay to use POST
(Untangled)
- Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers: Stiglitz
(CNBC.com)
- Blue Sun? What an IBM acquisition of Sun means for software
(O'Reilly Broadcast)
- The Javascript Trap
(Richard Stallman)
- Why Management is Not a Profession
(Bob Sutton)
- A Center-Right Nation Forever
(Matthew Yglesias)
- Diebold Admits ALL Versions of Their Software Delete Ballots Without Notice
(The BRAD BLOG)
- Guest Post by Lawrence Wilkerson: Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay
(The Washington Note)
- Financial Journalists Fail Upward
(WSJ.com)
- New York Times' New Columnist Is Full of It
(The Daily Beast)
- Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know.
(washingtonpost.com)
- The sanctity of AIG's contracts
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- High and Low Finance - Bankers Point to the Rules as the Problem
(NYTimes.com)
- Gerald M. Weinberg's Favorite Bug
(Test Guide)
- The Missing $1,000,000 Tax Bracket
(FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right)
- Jonathan Chait on New Deal-Denialism
(Grasping Reality with Both Hands)
- Why we've reached the end of the camera megapixel race
(Ars Technica)
- Clear Church/State Violation: TM in Public School
(Daily Kos: State of the Nation)
- Top 50 New Software Development Books
(NOOP.NL)
- Criminals In The Bush White House, Ctd.
(The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (March 03, 2009))
- Remember The "Gang Of 14?"
(TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime)
- $5 BILLION IN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BOUGHT WALL STREET FREEDOM FROM REGULATION, RESTRAINT
(Wall Street Watch)
- Thomas Friedman’s Five Worst Predictions
(Barrett Brown | Vanity Fair)
- Put Away the Flags
(Howard Zinn)
- Experts: Big Flaw in Will’s Ice Assertions
(Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com)
- How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
(Bret Taylor's blog)
- Maine Man Tries to Build Dirty Bomb, No One Cares
(Jonathan Stray)
- Swing and JDK 7
(The Planetarium)
- Swing 2: Pissing in the Wind
(elliotth's blog)
- Corruption Touched CIA’s Covert Operations
(ProPublica)
- Could the Childs case put all network admins in danger?
(The Deep End | Paul Venezia | InfoWorld)
- Sanford Offers Unemployed South Carolina Resident ‘Prayers’ Instead Of Stimulus Funds
(Think Progress)
- Of Pork and Payback
(NYTimes.com)
- Explanations to common Java exceptions
(Bjorn Andersson)
- Pop Psychology
(The Atlantic (December 2008))
- Visa Fraud Sparks Arrests Nationwide
(BusinessWeek)
- The New Deal and right-wing revisionism
(The Boston Globe)
- Utah Gay Rights Initiative Dies
(On Top Magazine)
- Jeff Dean keynote at WSDM 2009
(Geeking with Greg)
- Stimulus Provides Preview Of Health Battles Ahead
(NPR)
- Global-warming denialism as a conspiracy theory
(The Reality-Based Community)
- Testimony of Spc. Brandon Neely
(The Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas)
- Former Gitmo Guard Tells All—By Scott Horton
(Harper's Magazine)
- Addicted to fake outrage
(San Francisco Chronicle)
- If The Right Were Intellectually Honest ...
(The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (February 13, 2009))
- Desktop Linux suckage: a quick exercise
(elliotth's blog)
- Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To
(The Daily WTF)
- How Banks Are Worsening the Foreclosure Crisis
(BusinessWeek)
- Nationalize the Banks! We're all Swedes Now
(washingtonpost.com)
- Did I Remember To
(Test Guide)
- Why LCD is the Cool New Technology All Over Again - O'Reilly Radar
(ETech Preview)
- Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S.
(Reuters)
- NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution
(The Register)
- Officer Charged With Assault of Man He Arrested
(NYTimes.com)
- Solicitor general nominee says 'enemy combatants' can be held without trial
(Los Angeles Times)
- Steven Pearlstein - Big Lessons in Finance From a Little Bank You've Never Heard Of
(washingtonpost.com)
- The Safari Image of Doom
(DrunkenBlog)
- The Destructive Center
(NYTimes.com)
- Obama fails his first test on civil liberties and accountability -- resoundingly and disgracefully
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- Pentagon Pushes Debunked "Returning To Terror" Hype
(Newshoggers.com)
- Let the Wall St. "Talent" Walk
(FlowChart (usnews.com))
- Large numbers of failed tests are rare
(JUnit Max)
- GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Dem Lawmakers By Almost 2 To 1 In Cable News Stimulus Debate Again
(Think Progress » REPORT)
- DSLs: Definitely a bad idea!
(Panopticon Central)
- 2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family - Some Mothers, Single by Choice, Stick Together
(NYTimes.com)
- Why Windows Must Go Open Source
(InformationWeek)
- Google Latitude shows what’s wrong with Nokia’s social location (SoLo) strategy
(last100)
- Microsoft Has PMS
(Cringely on technology)
- Apple's design process
(BusinessWeek)
- Calendar bug
((Slightly) Random Broken Thoughts)
- Chinese earthquake may have been man-made, say scientists
(Telegraph)
- Is your keyboard jammed, or are you just writing Haskell?
(Virtuous Code)
- The three line rule
(Virtuous Code)
- The Flawed Theory Behind Unit Testing
(Michael Feathers' Blog)
- You Don't Say: Facebook and list mania
(Veteran drudge John E. McIntyre writes about language, usage, journalism and and other arbitrarily chosen subjects)
- Canada
(Microsoft JobsBlog)
- Recording collection calls: three easy steps
(stop debt collection harassment and housing discrimination)
- Bailouts for Bunglers
(NYTimes.com)
- Macintosh: 25 Years
(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
- Ruby 1.9.1 Released - First Production Release of the Fastest Ruby Ever!
(Ruby Inside)
- Obama's Emerging Policies
(Noam Chomsky)
- Java Swing 2.0
(Jonathan Giles)
- Packing the Right Credit Card
(Frugal Traveler Blog - NYTimes.com)
- Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy
(NYTimes.com)
- In Cloud We Trust?
(ReadWriteWeb)
- FBI saw mortgage fraud early
(Seattle Post Intelligencer)
- At Annual Beekeeper Conference, All Talk Turns to Colony Collapse Disorder - thedailygreen.com
(The Daily Green)
- Earnings Releases
(Sun Microsystems - Investor Relations)
- McNealy: Hire Great People And Delegate
(Forbes.com)
- Bad Faith Economics
(NYTimes.com)
- The war that wasn't
(Haaretz - Israel News)
- A Conversation with Alan Kay
(ACM Queue)
- PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter
(Coding Horror)
- Apple's first Macintosh turns 25
(BBC NEWS | Technology)
- Bowen diary: Rafah rebuilds
(BBC NEWS | World | Middle East)
- Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan
(TIME)
- Mousa Abu Marzook: A decisive loss for Israel
(Comment is free | The Guardian)
- New poll on torture and investigations negates Beltway conventional wisdom
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- Red Hat set to surpass Sun in market capitalization
(The Open Road - CNET News)
- Calls for open source government
(BBC NEWS | Technology)
- Mohammed Jawad and Obama's efforts to suspend military commissions
(Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com)
- It’s a good day to disclose the largest credit card data breach ever
(ZDNet.com)
- Loathing of George Bush is now nearly universa
(Jeremy Lott)
- The real reason Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich
(Salon)
- View Android Source Code in Eclipse
(Mike's Blog)
- Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores
(Richard Jones, Esq.)
- Volcker: Keep Banks Small Enough to Fail
(Matthew Yglesias)
- Assessing the Bush years | The frat boy ships out
(The Economist)
- Hit 'Em High, Hit 'Em Low
(Kent Beck)
- Learning the Lessons of the Bush Imperial Presidency
(John Conyers Jr.)
- Forgive and Forget?
(NYTimes.com)
- Pro-Israel Rally Attended by Big-Time NY Dems Descends into Calls for 'Wiping Out' Palestinians
(AlterNet)
- Retro Computing and the Cloud
(Columns by PC Magazine)
- If the User Can't Find It...
(Coding Horror)
- Israel bans Arab parties from running in upcoming elections
(Haaretz - Israel News)
- Full Working MultiTouch on the T-Mobile G1 Android Phone
(LukeHutch)
- My comment to the FCC on DRM
(Armed and Dangerous)
- Year in Review: What to expect in Java SE 7
(JavaWorld)
- An Unnecessary War
(Jimmy Carter)
- Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and U.S. Enabled Sex Trade Near Base
(NYTimes.com)
- Sun Microsystems Expands Cloud Computing Offerings with Acquisition of Q-layer
(SUN)
- Kindle vs. iPhone/iPod Touch: Human/Machine Interaction & User Experience
(Bruce Tognazzini)
- Real World Haskell
(On Ruby: Author Interview)
- Software development predictions for 2009
(Neil McAllister | InfoWorld)
- And there lie the bodies
(Haaretz - Israel News)
- Rove's IT Guru Warned of Sabotage
(t r u t h o u t)
- Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010
(.VentureBeat)
- Programming in the small
(Ivan Moore)
- Impostor disrupts lands bid
(Salt Lake Tribune)
- Obama's Black Widow
(Nat Hentoff)
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