Links

I had several minutes of fun using the Virtual Stapler.

DotComDoom.com — about the demise of dot-coms. News links.

If nothing else, the Moody downgrading and S & P downgrading mean a further slowdown in India, despite any rate cuts.

When the boom was on, America’s flexible labour laws made it a haven. With the slowdown, American layoffs are faster. Flexible labour laws come with the penalty of volatility.

Joel writes on software. “Good software takes 10 years” is a good read.

Don’t work too hard on keyboards. You’ll ruin your wrists like I did.

Funny Churchill quotes.

The full texts of Supreme Court rulings. Online and free.

Encyclopaedia Britannica is now a paid service.

MIT’s Blogdex crawls weblogs (like mine) for popular links. Nice concept — somewhat like Google’s, except more “current information” based. The page of only weblogs has a good list of weblogs (not as comprehensive as Eatonweb), and Rebecca’s written a good history of weblogs.