- Twitter tells third-party devs to stop making Twitter client apps – “More significantly, it demonstrates the vulnerability of building a business on top of a Web platform that is controlled by a single vendor.” This is exactly the lesson I found with my Delicious.com client.
- Illinois scrubs death penalty – Another step in the right direction.
- NYT and “torture”: Searching for a justification – Apparently the definition of torture depends very much on who is doing it.
Tag: Death Penalty
- US switch to new lethal injection scrutinised – However you do it, killing people is a cruel and unusual punishment.
- Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys – “Lemasson … suspects that a dense jungle environment drove the evolution of syntax. Since the monkeys had trouble seeing each other, they compensated by talking.”
- Google DNS – Why would Google make their own DNS service if there’s no direct way to sell advertising from it?
- Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty – I find that there are many convincing arguments against capital punishment but maybe it’s the emotional one that works in the end. It could be you?
- Why do some countries drive on the right and others on the left? – Fascinating look at why (and where) we drive on which side of the road.
- Hidden Developer Gems in Snow Leopard – I know it’s geeky but I’m more excited about the new APIs in Snow Leopard than any of the new stuff or even, to a certain extent, the performance improvements.