Interesting Links, April 22, 2012

Here are links I found interesting on April 22, 2012:

Interesting Links, April 21, 2012

Here are links I found interesting on April 21, 2012:

Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 – Intelligently written: a sad look at the life and death of Facts.
Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XIV – Romney lies to make himself look better and to make Obama look worse. Yes, this is politics as usual for the GOP, but the sad thing is that too many people believe what he and others say without checking the facts. Rachel Maddow points out several more instances of Romney's lies and offers links to the truth of the matter in each.

Here are links I found interesting on April 16, 2012:

Amazon Low Prices Disguise a High Cost – "From the very beginning and with increasingly regularity, Amazon has used its market power to bully and dictate." Not exactly news, but apparently the U.S. government doesn't have a problem with it.

Here are links I found interesting on April 8, 2012:

How Secure is Your Password? – Table of how long it would take an average PC to crack your password based on password length and type of characters it includes.
Background Patterns Maker – Very cool little web-based app for creating seamless background patterns.

Here are links I found interesting on April 6, 2012:

Shutting down spammers – This Twitter blog post sheds some light on how Twitter is handling Spam. I've seen an improvement and am thrilled that they're doing this.
Twitter launches legal assault on tweet spammers – "The company on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco against five of its most aggressive spam enablers." I'm seeing a real difference today. Horray!
8 Reasons Users Don’t Fill Out Sign Up Forms – A kind of no-brainer, but too many sites still expect people to sign up to participate. Why?
Titanic at 100 years – Amazing photos of the Titanic before and after the disaster, including many images of artifacts. Thanks to @BWJones on Twitter for sharing the link.