Swaps Probe Finds Banks Rigged Rate at Expense of Retirees – Bloomberg.
Wish this type of activity were unusual and unbelievable. But these days it’s easy to see malice (through greed) in the actions of the finance industry.
How to Make Async Requests in PHP.
Nice technique for making async requests in PHP. Though the one thing it doesn’t offer is callback functionality. Then again, that would require a persistently running PHP process. Probably the best solution would be a forked process that performs callback functionality, which is then retrieved by client-side async requests.
Or just display the results the next time a page is loaded.
What’s Wrong With Business And The Economy – Business Insider.
God. Damn. Right!
This is a glorious compilation of xkcd’s Time, er, time-lapse comic!
Industry vs. government science – Salon.com.
Considering the interests of business over the interests of public health is not a balanced approach. Industry is short-sighted in their efforts. Debasing genuine scientific information to maintain the bottom line doesn’t just affect the targeted science. It affects all science. Continuing to attack science and scientists only diminishes science as a whole and could lead to fewer individuals pursuing science in the future.
That doesn’t even touch on the public health effects. It’s easy for business to ignore things like this when their money and power shields them from the health consequences.
How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
An ode to Google’s efforts to make everything searchable.
Congress united on one topic: Pets are cute – In the Loop – The Washington Post.
And so this great experiment in democracy ends.