Friday links...Thursday!

Working on a new incarnation of a basic idea I've been kicking around for a while: a Perl script to snarf the links from Planet sites and tell me what people are linking to. So far it likes this one by Joel Spolsky and this one by Ben Collins-Sussman, an announcement from Adobe and this interview with Khoi Vinh of the New York Times. Not bad. Here's the discussion of that Adobe thing at LWN.

Another good one, from an earlier test of the same script. Marc Andreessen explains the Microsoft/Yahoo deal. "This is significant because historically hostile takeovers practically never happened in technology. Potential hostile acquirors assumed that hostile takeovers wouldn't work because the target company's employees would bail and the target company's business would collapse." (That's what I thought. Are there really people who are smart enough to build a whole new version of Microsoft, but too dumb to type "microsoft.com/jobs"?

Cause Caller is a VoIP application for telemarketing, I mean phone banking for advocacy groups. (Via Interprete)

Candlelight vigil against the use of proprietary software—that takes dedication.

COIN without a model for Community Resilience is Futile. How much of your ability to defeat terists depends on a trustworthy local police force? NGOs such as the Red Cross? The repair crews for electrical, gas, and communications utilities?

Matt Cutts explains Google Charts, including the Google-O-Meter.

Robert Love points out the basic economic reason that a "gas tax holiday" is a dumb idea. Since the amount that refineries can produce doesn't go up during the "holiday," the price without the tax tends to come up to where it was with the tax—only the money goes to oil company profits instead of the tax-funded projects.

Yay, 30 years of spam.

Syndicated 2008-05-01 22:03:27 from dmarti's blog