Top Ten for 2011

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:03:00 GMT

Happy {New,Gnu,Blue,Pneu} Year Everybody! As usual there may be less than 10 items.

Sheldon Richman's Why WikiLeaks Matters
Fred Branfman on WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us
CBS news on How WikiLeaks Enlightened Us in 2010
Martha Rosenberg with some interesting (but unsubstantiated) claims that US government agencies kill millions (literally) of blackbirds, 1000 times more than the 1000 that died in Arkansas
John McWhorter on Getting Darnell Off The Corners: Why America Should Ride The Anti-Drug Wave (alternate title: Why Legalizing Drugs—All Of Them—Is The Only Path To A New Black America)
Cambridge University refuses to bend over to the "house of cards" and censor a students research into pin-chip card insecurity. Professor Ross Anderson's response is a delight.
Eliezer Yudkowsky on Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate (where "our kinds" is defined as computer geeks, libertarians, rationalists, etc.)
Kyung Hee Kim on the precipitous decline of productivity among American schoolchildren
Bradford Schmidt on expected sub-$100 Android smartphones (no-contract price). Maybe this will be the death knell of smartphone subsidies; why lock into a 3-year contract at $60/month when you can buy the phone for $100 and get service at $10 or $20/month?

Ian's Top Ten Today, #1

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:51:00 GMT

Here are some links that I found worth passing on recently. This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten.

End Software Patents
Jacob C. Hornberger: Hillary Should Have Apologized for Waco in Waco
Building a Green PC at ArsTecnica
Canadian Politics: Let Elizabeth Speak (although, despite the noble-sounding URL, it only pleads for one of our minority parties)
Managing Your Inbox courtesy of RIM
Microsoft dupes consumers into buying crappy hardware just to pinch Vista out the door (Caveat: this blog contains statements admitted in evidence but not "proven" by trial, and doesn't know how to spell "dilemna")
Free book downloads in CS/Eng/Programming from www.freetechbooks.com/index.php
Senator denies $40,000 in telecom corporate donations could affect vote on telecoms immunity bill (I can just see Jay Leno delivering that line, can't you?)
MPAA lies about college downloading, agitates for legal interventions, and laughs its $10B profits all the way to the bank
Humor: PHD Comics, especially this strip (thread continues about 8 strips later).

Like I say, tha-tha-that's all (for now), folks. When I get another ten, this'll be back.

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Top Ten for 2011

Ian's Top Ten Today, #1