The Economist suggests a new term for the combination of institutional dysfunction and economic deflation that has robbed the Japanese population of around $650 billion over the last decade: dysflation.
Sean Gallagher has a nice follow-on from the recent Microsoft security monoculture paper that explains why Windows is like the potato.
(Via Phil Windley.)
Just doing my tiny, tiny bit for anyone searching for this term on Google.
Update: I see that Dan Gillmor is asking his readers to do what I've done above. No doubt this will have a much larger effect.
MSN closes down it's chat rooms because "free, unmoderated chat isn't safe".
Also coming soon:
Yeah right, this has everything to do with the safety of our kids (who will presumably move on to even less trustworthy discussion forums) and nothing at all to do with the safety of Microsoft's bottom line (free chat just happens not to make any money).
It's OK to close down a service that doesn't make business sense, but why lie about your reasons for doing so? Can you gain the respect of your customers by treating them with contempt?
I recently finished Life of Pi by Yann Martel. You should read it. I don't want to ruin anything by saying more.