The one OS to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.

This is an interesting contest to promote applications that extract data available from data.gov.

http://www.sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/

This is a good site for verifying whether IE is at fault for your ugly page. I recently had to work around bug #50.

Bugs in MSIE 8

I love the fact that information on the Internet is constantly being updated, but wait, dictionary.com thinks that the Hermitage museum is in LENINGRAD. The city wasn’t called Leningrad when it was built, and its official name was changed back to St. Petersburg 18 years ago. On top of that, I doubt that Ask.com, which owns dictionary.com, will ever actually process my report that their data is bad.

http://tweetcampsa.eventbrite.com/ — July 18, 2009

http://www.barcamp.org/actioncampsa — August 1, 2009

According to LWN:

There is a new sysctl knob (/proc/sys/kernel/modules_disabled); writing “1″ to that file will cause module loading to be forevermore disallowed.

Rootkits often load a module into the kernel so that it will hide the fact that the rootkit is running on the box.
This is definitely more useful on servers, since you are unlikely to be plugging in a usb device that needs another module after booting. However, it also prevents the KSplice reboot-less updates, which are also primarily useful for servers.