Desktop Tower Defense Should Be Banned
I first discovered this on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog, where he warned “The lack of posting here in the second half of this week (especially to my linkblog) has been a direct result of attempting to beat this highly addictive game. Whatever you do, please DO NOT click the link and start playing that game. You may find yourself in the very same time warp that I did…”
Michael Arrington on TechCrunch via Jeremy Zawodny — I first saw this game mentioned on Jeremy’s blog almost a month ago I think. I lost a good chunk of a weekend because of it. I didn’t report it then because I thought it wouldn’t be much of a service to anyone. My ethics have, momentarily I hope, weakened. So here it is.
Best Practices for Agile Development
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Agile software development is touted as a new and effective way to manage project budget and timeline risk. Development team members gain improved flexibility to respond to ongoing adjustments in the requirements and design. This is obtained without compromising their ability to meet project commitments.
Innosphere — So I’m going to be a member of a panel. I’m looking forward to this. It should be a lot of fun, fun that’ll start with the ‘best practices’ bit in the title of the event. I haven’t participated in an event like this for years.
Another Boston Terrorism Overreaction
Are these people trying to be stupid? … Terrorism used to be hard. Now all you have to is hang backpacks from trees near schools.
Schneier on Security — Sigh.
A Woman Wrongly Convicted and a U.S. Attorney Who Kept His Job
The conviction of Georgia Thompson has become part of the furor over the firing of eight United States attorneys in what seems like a political purge. While the main focus of that scandal is on why the attorneys were fired, the Thompson case raises questions about why other prosecutors kept their jobs.
[And just for the record…] And in an extraordinary move, it [the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit] ordered her released immediately, without waiting to write a decision.
New York Times
