links for 2010-04-22
On 22 April 02010 with 1 comment
Remember those foolish comments that Supreme Court justices made, showing that they know nothing about technology? The transcript of the oral arguments that's now available makes clear that most of those were taken out of context.
There was recently an interesting article published in Marie Claire (!) that received an award from the Overseas Press Club today, about the Mauritanian ideal of fat women, and the force-feeding of young girls to make them desirable to would-be husbands.
The technology that Belkin has just bought sounds very impressive. Monitoring home energy use is a pretty tricky proposition, assuming one wants data that's more fine-grained than total consumption by everything in the house at any one time. That this fellow has managed to infer per-device data by simply plugging into a wall jack is really amazing.
Having made a bunch of changes to the Drupal CMS for whitehouse.gov, the White House has released their changes to the source code under the GPL. I don't have words for how awesome this is.
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