Links posted on February 05, 2008
Entries for the nanobowl competition. Work is so hard, I had to sit here and watch all 28! I particularly like the Superbowl X^IX one.
Vote for new Texas standard license plates. There are four new designs up for vote or you can choose the current design. New plates will be available in 2009.
Homeland Security, Doing Good by Doing what it does Well - DHS has for almost a year had a program to comb common industrial Open Source software products (the Apaches and the Linuxes and the Firefoxen &c) to detect and repair security flaws. This is perfect for everyone involved -- it has a real effect on security, and highlights why openness is a superior approach to security; it signals to whomever still doubts it that open source software can be industrial strength; and it's a contribution that enthusiasm-driven open-source projects struggle with but that a government agency is superbly equipped to provide. It's also cheap, as far as I can tell ($300k/year). More of this and fewer of the airport anal probes please DHS. [more inside]
Some new webcomics if you're interested. First up, Backwards Compatible by Aaron Williams. It has a little something for everyone: the ladies, video game cynics, and virtual rockers. Everybody's happy!
Second, Ding! by Scott Kurtz for all your Warcraft inside joke needs.