Links for March 1st through March 4th
March 4th, 2008These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 1st through March 4th:
- Hark! A Vagrant - You Cannot Deny The Majesty - The BIL conference last weekend was replete with mighty beards, but even Aubrey de Grey couldn’t hold a candle to Sanford Fleming
- HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought) -
- The Median Isn’t the Message - Stephen Jay Gould - on understanding statistics about mortality and survival rates
- An Unlucky Pairing - Tastings - WSJ.com - How on earth does a guy get named “sommelier of the year” and not recognize Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher of the WSJ when he walks by them? Dude should be fired. To his credit, he does apologize
- Teenage Hacker Is Blind, Brash and in the Crosshairs of the FBI - amazing story by Kevin Poulsen
- How Crypto Won the DVD War | Threat Level from Wired.com - Ryan Singel’s theory: Blu-ray won because it has better copy protection than HD DVD