Quick links roundup
- Boston Globe: Job Losses Mount in Bay State. The paper points out that while the jobless rate dropped to 5.3% last month in Massachusetts, much of that was due to people not looking any more. For the record, the jobless rate in Washington State is 6.1%.
- Clancy Ratliff: Dude, who put a screw in YOUR spring roll? How not to handle a food tainting issue.
- Tom Harpel: Visualize Your Home Directory. Disk Inventory X is a hard disk space visualizer using treemaps, the same visualization technology used by Microsoft Research’s maps of Usenet.
- Bryan Strawser: The Trouble with the Freedom Trail. Pointer to Boston Globe article about how to move the Freedom Trail away from monuments and to where the action actually happened.
- Zork over AIM (via MeFi). “You are in a maze of twisty little emoticons, all alike.” What the MeFi article doesn’t say is you can also play Hitchhiker’s Guide, Deadline, Wishbringer, or Planetfall, among others.
