January 2010
4 posts
Justice Stevens tells the truth
“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”
From http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
Via http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/us/26bar.html?hp
And a huge amount of sorrow, cynicism and distrust. No outcry at activist judges. No spotlight on corporate...
Invent better
This post by Marco suggests that there is nowhere to place blame for the current retail practice of destroying/returning unsold merchandise.
Stating that something is an industry-wide practice does not mean that it is acceptable, or excusable, or even understandable. Manufacturers are not pushing “risky” products on retailers, especially not at the Wal*Mart size, who then require a...
iPhone crashers, part 1
The following links will fail in two ways if loaded on an iPhone. First, they will fail to re-direct to the nicely designed mobile version of Sports Illustrated. Second, they will crash Safari.
Examples:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/joe_posnanski/01/04/hall.ballot/index.html
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/wires/01/06/2010.ap.bbn.cardinals.holliday.0421/
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