del.icio.us links for 2006-01-02

• “Let the Good Times Roll” by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint: "As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing, there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and every once in while the world starts spinning." (design presentation productivity psychology rant reference)
• Pricey coffee good to the last dropping: Would you pay $175 for a pound of coffee beans which had passed through the backside of a furry mammal in Indonesia? (Someone won the IgNobel prize for this years ago.) (coffee food funny indonesia news weird)
• CNN.com - Bush defends NSA spying program - Jan 1, 2006: Bush: There is an enemy out there. They read newspapers. If somebody from al Qaeda is calling you, we'd like to know why. (bush crime evil liberty news nsa politics privacy security surveillance us)
• How To Make A RFID Blocking Wallet: With the proliferation of RFID devices and related privacy concerns, it seemed due time to create the RFID Blocking Duct Tape Wallet. (fashion privacy rfid security)
• Schneier on Security: Project Shamrock: Decades before 9/11, and the subsequent Bush order that directed the NSA to eavesdrop on every phone call, e-mail message, and who-knows-what-else going into or out of the United States, U.S. citizens included, they did the same thing with telegrams. (bush crime law liberty nsa politics privacy schneier security us)
• Classic Mistakes Enumerated: Some ineffective development practices have been chosen so often, by so many people, with such predictable, bad results that they deserve to be called "classic mistakes." (management productivity programming)