Friday, March 30, 2007

Windows Mobility Center

The stick a bunch of marginally related tasks in the same window approach to user interface design:

Windows Mobility Center, screenshot

Things common to, uh, laptops! Weeee!

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Final Four

Los Angeles Times on the Top Ten Reasons to Hate the Gators. Suck it, Bruins. Although I would love to again debase everything Joey represents, the Buckeyes will fall to Georgetown, and then we will have ourselves a championship game.

Larry Summers in the Financial Times on policymakers' need to take a long-term view.

The indefatigable Jon Stokes in Ars Technica on Intel's forthcoming Nehalem architecture: Oregon-inspired funny name, 45 nm manufacturing process, up to eight cores, an on-die memory controller, optional integrated graphics subsystem, and the return of SMT.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Gramercy Tavern

Flight back from Beijing connected in EWR, so I spent the weekend in New York.

NYC Skyline from the Empire State Building
Guest Photographer

The Politico on Google lobbyists.

Sarah Hamersma, a University of Florida professor, in today's New York Times on a minimum wage versus the EITC.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

A Last Night in Beijing

Tambet is kicking butt with his NetworkManager redesign.

Bike in Beijing

The Politico on Senator McCain's pledge to accept public funding in the general.

Burned Palance in the Forbidden Palace

Zalmay Khalizad in Saturday's Washington Post.