Today's Links
Why HP's practice of region-encoding their printer ink cartridges is bogus - earlier this week an employee of HP defended the practice on the basis that it protects the company against currency fluctuations - i.e. the rise of the Euro against the Dollar. This fellow explains how HP's logic in this case is pretty flawed unless they are deliberately trying to gouge their customers.
BuckFush.com has a Special Report on Inaugural Balloons- and the handling thereof should you happen to be upwind of DC tomorrow morning. "Don't tie long strips of aluminum foil on your balloons. This is very dangerous, because if one of your balloons was accidentally blown from your hands, these bits of foil would make the balloon have a radar cross section of a 747. You wouldn't want the Air Force to think the skies over Washington were filled with commercial airliners, especially in the no fly zone."
Michael Wolf Photography has a terrific site devoted to his pictures of urban architecture density in Hong Kong.