08/23 Keep an eye on the Curacao in the Little League World Series — Curacao has in the past won or gotten very close to winning the overall Little League World Series! So far it looks like the Curacao team has won the Caribean title. Take a look at the standings so far: Little League World Series Standings Oddly enough the way the overall World Series is structured is that the US always makes it to the Semi Finals. Seems a bit rigged don’t you think? At least it’s better than the big leagues where the “World” in “World Series” means US and Canada 🙂

08/21 links for 2006-08-21 —

• Prevent further “participation gap” between have’s and have not’s interesting set of links about legistlation that impacts social networking sites (tags: soflow interesting)

08/18 links for 2006-08-18 —

• Direct2Dell New blog by dell (i think from their support org.) All you dell users out there might like to follow it! (tags: feed dell soflow support)

08/18 “Getting the cool kids to try your technology isn’t the same thing as having a long-term business proposition.” — Scoble has a good commentary and links to more commentary about Kiko. Kiko is a web 2.0 / ajax / cool calendar application that appears to be throwing in the towel. Here’s what Scoble had to say: Does Kiko predict more Web 2.0 failures?” href=”http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/does-kiko-pre...

08/17 Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program — From ZDNet: Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program | Tech News on ZDNet “The warrantless Internet and telephone surveillance program authorized by the Bush administration violates the U.S. Constitution and must cease immediately, a federal judge ruled Thursday.”

08/16 Facebook joins the API crowd — It is said that you can’t be a true Web 2.0application without an API to enable mashups and such goodies. Well, Facebook joins the crowd by opening up their system to developers. Also check out their terms of service. Neat! Technorati Tags: API, facebook, soflow

08/16 links for 2006-08-16 —

• Ten (Okay, 13) Questions with Libby Sartain, Chief People Yahoo! All you ever wanted to know about getting a job with your resume (tags: soflow [interesting](http://del.ici...

08/15 links for 2006-08-15 —

• Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact New model segway. (tags: segway technology cooltools)

08/15 Compelling, in a weird kind of way — Just take a good look at these pictures! Thanks Aleksey! Technorati Tags: interesting, photography

08/15 Coolest connection speed tester ever — Speedtest.net is another wicked cool way to check how fast your internet connection really is. Tastes good and looks good too!

08/14 Demographically insensitive user interface — I was playing around with one or the other web site the other day, and upon requesting a registration I was asked to provide a secret answer to a question so tha...

08/12 Apple Online Store honors the Massachusetts Tax Holiday — Yeah, why wouldn’t they? In Massachusetts, Saturday Aug 12 and Sunday Aug 13, there is no 5% Sales Tax, even when buying stuff online. And Apple is honoring it. I don’t know, you can never be sure with Apple, they Think Different.

08/11 James Fallows: “The War on Terror is Over” — Another great article in The Atlantic, James Fallows: “Declaring Victory“ > “The United States is succeeding in its struggle against terrorism. The time has come to declare the ...

08/11 links for 2006-08-11 —

• The Julipedia: IMAP gateway to GMail Not sure how real or how useful this is, but it sounds important — an Imap gateway to gmail (tags: gmail imap [imap...

08/10 St Maarten is such a small island that the airport runs right up to the beach — Check out [this picture!](http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0385938&WxsIERv=Obrvat%20747-406&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=XYZ%20-%20Eblny%20Qhgpu%20Nveyvarf&QtODMg=Cuvyvcfohet%20%2F%20Fg.%20Znnegra%20-%20Cevaprff%20Whyvnan%20%28FKZ%20%2F%20GAPZ%29&ERDLTkt=Argureynaqf%20Nagvyyrf&ktODMp=Whar%2026%2C%202003&BP=1&...

08/10 Reminder: BlogBridge Skypecast tomorrow, Thursday, Aug 10, at 10:00am — Check here for the details! This will be an overview of BlogBridge 3.0 and the Feed Library, come one,  come all! Technorati Tags: skype, skypecast

08/09 links for 2006-08-09 —

• Sharing PHP Code Snippets Looks like a good podcast to add to the list. (tags: php podcast scottjohson interesting) - Tagzania: tagging the planet (tags: interesting maps) - Platial.com (tags: map interesting)

08/09 Scratch and vote? — Here’s an interesting new development to apply technology to voter fraud and better voting. Technology? Oh, yeah, not computers, actually this is from your local lottery ticket: scratch and vote: Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact

08/08 links for 2006-08-08 —

• Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2006 Really interesting review of statistics collected by Technorati about the blogosphere. (tags: blogosphere technorati blog statistics)

08/07 Super duper tie of your shoe laces! — Ever have your shoe laces come undone, over and over again? The usual mommy double know doesn’t work that well for me. Here’s an alternative: Ian’s Shoelace Site – Surgeon’s Shoelace Knot