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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.

In some quiet corner, something different is happening to copyrights. The law of eminent domain is being applied to content. Not good enough, but its a start.

This study has some nice animations on how the Code Red virus spread geographically.