Interesting Links, April 27, 2012

Here are links I found interesting on April 27, 2012:

Plan to crop – Interesting article with information about cropping photographs to fit standard size prints and frames.
Chickens As Pets and the iBookstore delay – Another author shares my frustration with Apple's complete failure to timely review and publish iBooks Author-generated interactive ebooks. Why did they give us this tool if they can't support publishing it?

Interesting Links, April 22, 2012

Here are links I found interesting on April 22, 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.