A Better Course

“Burger King is currently developing a healthier meal for children including flame broiled chicken tenders in the shape of a Burger King crown.” It appears the product will drive advertising (healthier food to advertise to under-12s) and be nauseating.

(tags: burgerking reuters advertising health policy)

Yahoo has released source code for Yahoo’s e-mail, letting third parties create small programs that mesh with users’ address books and other mail services and is working with partners on applications that let users embed other sites and services on their

(tags: yahoo businessweek open technology web2.0 strategy)

Steven M. Bellovin, a professor of computer science at Columbia University, said: “Most of the problems we have day to day have nothing to do with malice. Things break. Complex systems break in complex ways.”

(tags: nytimes technology)