Germany updates on the way
I’ll still be writing about our trip to Germany in the coming days. I ran out of time during the trip to drag myself to the internet cafe and collect my thoughts. This time, I’ll also have pictures!
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Welcome BBC readers
A seemingly innocuous post on clarifying the offsides rule in soccer (I wish I could call it football), lead to a flattering post about my blog. If this is your first time here, I hope you find something interesting, funny, or informative.
Latino Immigrants and Assimilation
Latino assimilate quite well into American society, more so than the anti-immigration conservative right would have you believe. Tyler Cowen and Daniel M. Rothschild have a data-packed column in the Washington Post looking at this issue. Throughout the article, I couldn’t help but pick parts where I felt like they were writing about me. Most
Mapping the World Cup Rosters
I’m pleased to announce a cool mapping application I hacked together this weekend which lets you see on a map where each National Team’s player’s clubs are located. At the moment, I’ve only included England, Spain, the United States, and Mexico but will be adding more teams as the World Cup approaches. Some things you
Just say no to HDMI.
The Hollywood cartels may try to get hardware companies to put in DRM controls via HDMI with the promise not to use them for 7-8 years. The effect is that if your screen or recorder isn’t blessed by Hollywood, they can limit the video they send to it to a low-resolution image. Manufacturers who want
Comments & Spam
I’ve had to put in a number of checks and anti-spam measurements to counteract s slew of comment and trackback spam. If you try to leave a comment and run into errors, please email me to let me know.
Mac Virus Threatdown
Mossberg answers a question in his mailbox column today, including the security threat posed by viruses to Apple’s computers (unless you choose to run Windows on it, then you’re just as vulnerable). His assessment also applies to computers running Linux. The common misconception is that virus writers don’t target these platforms because they are not
Opening new browser windows is bad, mmmkay?
Jakob Nielsen way back in 1999. and again in 2005 Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer’s carpet. Don’t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management). If I
DC United season assesment and thoughts on Jaime Moreno
The MASR today ltalks to Coach Nowak, Eskandarian, and Bryan Namoff about United’s season so far. As a fan, you have to be happy with the best start ever, and being in 2nd place this early should pay off later in the season, barring a devastating losing streak. They also discuss Moreno’s form, which after
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Dichter: A critique of microfinance
Sometimes when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Thomas Dichter has a critique of the overhype of microcredit. Picked up via BoingBoing and Futurismic. Yet microcredit is an almost perfect case of a phenomenon that has come to characterize much of development assistance – a widening gap between reality and propaganda. For