limlom newsfeed

O'Grady's PowerPage Friday July 04, 2008 |

O'Grady's PowerPage will be taking today off to catch up with our friends and families, eat a respectable amount of barbeque and get ready for the iPhone 3G launch exactly one week from now. News will resume on Monday,...

MetaFilter Obama | Friday July 04, 2008 |

Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) delayed. Senator Dodd says , "This bill does not say, 'Trust the American people; Trust the courts and judges and juries to come to just decisions.' Retroactive immunity sends a message that is crystal...

Boing Boing Friday July 04, 2008 |

According to a new international study, the United States has the highest rates of pot and coke use, followed by New Zealand. The other 15 countries surveyed by the World Health Organization didn't even come close. Approximately 42.4 percent of those surveyed...

ReadWriteWeb News | Friday July 04, 2008 |

The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Apostasy means the...

Techmeme Friday July 04, 2008 |

Saul Hansell / Bits : Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy   —  The word “privacy” now appears on Google's home page, with a link to the company's privacy policy.  —  With that one word, the...

Slashdot Friday July 04, 2008 |

Bryan writes "Xian-Jin Li's purported proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (reported on recently) has been rebuked by Fields Medalist Terence Tao. Fortunately, Dr. Li's proof fails alongside a respectable graveyard of previous attempts." Relatedly, jim.shilliday...

Slashdot Friday July 04, 2008 |

Bryan writes "Xian-Jin Li's purported proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (reported on recently) has been rebuked by Fields Medalist Terence Tao. Fortunately, Dr. Li's proof fails alongside a respectable graveyard of previous attempts." Relatedly, jim.shilliday...

The Blog Herald General | Friday July 04, 2008 |

Once again, Gawker Media has cut the pay of their bloggers, according to a post over at Radar . You may recall that not too long ago, Gawker Media moved to a model where their bloggers were tied to the traffc on their individual blog posts - along with a...

DZone: latest front page how-to | Friday July 04, 2008 |

Are you building a web app or working on a blog or website and you need a beautiful way to display data? As usual, Google is here to help - for free. Google has built a very easy to use API for creating charts and adding them to your website on the fly. Here...

Ohmynews International ART&LIFE | Friday July 04, 2008 |

It was his long study and experience that allowed him to call a conference of crows during the auspicious festival of Kag Tihar. Hundreds of crows came, responding to his calls at the Open Theater in Kathmandu...

b5media b5media Network Highlights | Friday July 04, 2008 |

Happy 4th of July to those of you in the US, and to my fellow Canadians, a very happy belated Canada Day! Check out this roundup of Entertainment Channel posts: Looking for 4th of July recipes ? Look no further than Jeanne on Daytime Talk Nikki...

RubyCorner Friday July 04, 2008 |

I’ve been playing around with Sinatra (it’s awesome!) and thought I’d deploy something to my mess-around DreamHost account. I followed these instructions which totally worked and was...

nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog Friday July 04, 2008 |

Internet users at risks due to not updating most secure web browser and plugins. Study also finds that Firefox users most likely to use the latest version and therefore well secured from the Internet attacks. Read more: Firefox Leads Web Browser Security War...

CNET News.com News.com Miscellaneous | Friday July 04, 2008 |

Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier.

Web Worker Daily Open Threads | Friday July 04, 2008 |

It was 232 years ago today that a bunch of colonials got fed up with the king and announced that they weren’t going to take it any more. While I certainly don’t think the situation of web workers is comparable to that of America’s founders,...

ReadWriteWeb Products | Friday July 04, 2008 |

As Twitter began to fail on a regular basis, many of its users turned to other micro-blogging services to continue on with their 140-character lifestyle. Some returned to Jaiku or Pownce , others starting plurking , and just recently, an open source...

Techie Buzz Twitter Scalability | Friday July 04, 2008 |

When I had heard about twitter initially the question that had popped in my mind was ?What the hell is twitter??, at this point the question I have in my mind is ?What the hell is twitter doing??, though after two years the question has not changed drastically...

Ohmynews International ART&LIFE | Friday July 04, 2008 |

Last time I wrote a big piece of academic work I was disheartened because I thought my work would be useless. There is nothing worse than plugging away at something, thinking that only your examiner will read it and that nobody else...

DZone: latest front page frameworks | Friday July 04, 2008 |

When writing utility classes it is very easy to go down on the path of writing code that can never be changed later on because of static functions usage. Using a singleton approach combined with static functions is a much better solution, as shown in this...

Slashdot Friday July 04, 2008 |

Several readers noted the special section in Science, published today, with results from Messenger's flyby of Mercury last January. One conclusion is that volcanism has shaped the planet, contrary to earlier theories that Mercury had been "dead on arrival."...

Slashdot Friday July 04, 2008 |

Several readers noted the special section in Science, published today, with results from Messenger's flyby of Mercury last January. One conclusion is that volcanism has shaped the planet, contrary to earlier theories that Mercury had been "dead on arrival."...

Mashable! social networking | Friday July 04, 2008 |

Place the words ?blog? or ?social media? and ?politician? in the same line, and you almost invariably conjure images of a scandal. Or at least a messy exchange between writer/publisher and politician. Much less often are you likely to consider them a team....

ReadWriteWeb News | Friday July 04, 2008 |

Google's Street View launched in the US last May, but expanding the service to Europe is proving to be a bit more difficult for Google. The Google Maps blog today announced the release of Street View for the route of the Tour de France , but privacy...

Silicon Alley Insider Friday July 04, 2008 |

More executive changes at EMI: Veteran exec JF Cecillon is out as President, A&R Labels - International, and President - EMEA, at the end of next week, and could move into an advisory role with the label, boss Guy Hands told staff in an email. Other changes: ...