Occupation by Bureaucracy

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OK-Cancel or Cancel-OK?

"Should the OK button come before or after the Cancel button? Following platform conventions is more important than suboptimizing an individual dialog box." ()

OraPIG - Oracle Python Interface Generator Announced

Mark Harrison, from Pixar Animation Studios, recently announced the first release of "OraPig", which creates Python interfaces for PL/SQL packages. The documentation is a good place to get an overview: http://www.markharrison.net/orapig/

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International Paper Threatens to Violate Own Policy by Expanding Into Indonesian Rainforest

Rainforest Action Network and ForestEthics today condemned a proposal by U.S.-based International Paper to build a pulp mill and establish 1.2 million acres of plantation forest in the heart of the Indonesian rainforest.

Innu people threatened with evictions

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Illegal e-waste exposed

A container of electronic waste (e-waste) from Port of Oakland in the US was intercepted in Hong Kong by Greenpeace activists. After months of research, we determined that the container was destined for Sanshui district in mainland China meaning that - under Chinese …

Infoshop News -- Canadian Environmentalist and First Nations ask the Oil and Gas Bosses to Drink the Water

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is holding an Oil and Gas Investment Symposium in Calgary from June 16-18. The event brings together over 85 companies and 375 investors from Canada, the USA, and around the world - many of these folks are big funders in …

Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual

XML Fever

"The Extensible Markup Language (XML), which just celebrated its 10th birthday 4, is one of the big success stories of the Web. Apart from basic Web technologies (URIs, HTTP, and HTML) and the advanced scripting driving the Web 2.0 wave, XML is by far the most …