Links for 2006-06-09

Posted June 9, 2006 1:17 AM.

• Vote Zod in 2008! "Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote."
• Adrian Holovaty talks about programming and computer-assisted journalism "If you want innovation, hire people who are capable of it. Hire people who know what's possible. And once you hire the programmers, give them an environment in which they can be creative. Treat them as bona fide members of the journalism team"
• The new version of Yahoo! My Web launched a couple of days ago I know some of the people who worked on this, and they're really awesome - and this is an enormous step forward in My Web functionality...
• London Underground are experimenting with water-cooling and heat-exchange to chill the Underground Air conditioning the Underground has proven impractical - the tunnels are so far underground...
• Vitamin has a feature on how to design and code HTML e-mails I had to do some of these a few years back and it was a miserable process. Wish I'd had this article then...
• Lost-theories.com - an astonishingly well made repository of information and theories about the TV series It's a beautiful and solid piece of design, and I believe was built using my colleague's Django framework. Very nice indeed.
• The Political Compass goes beyond simplistic the simplistic left-right dichotomy I'm sure I've linked to this before, but it's still pretty solid and interesting. I remain economically slightly to the left of centre and way down towards the libertarian end of the spectrum
• Def Leppard are on the comeback trail The Guardian's got a fairly loving article about the old rockers who became old-fashioned overnight when grunge came along
• A revolutionary new drug for HIV apparently leaves the virus defenseless "A small human trial of the drug, reported last August, showed that when given on its own it rapidly clears most HIV from the blood, driving down the levels tenfold in a matter of hours."
• Jointcrackers.com - the web's best knuckles, toes, ankles, neck and spine joint cracking community... I'm upsetting Paul in the office pretty regularly by the number and regularity of crunchy noises my body makes during the day. Sorry Paul!
• The US senate has been intelligent enough to reject a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Take that, George Bush. Take that and shove it up your tail-pipe you horrible malevolent little man...