Links 17 DEC 08

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/news/madoff_sec/index.htm

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten17-2008dec17,0,5635106.column

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article5355258.ece

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/opinion/17friedman.html?_r=1

http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/drunkenfreude/?em

http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/17/0341210

http://www.slate.com/id/2189815>1=38001/

http://www.slate.com/id/2203763/

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/manufacturingtechnology/story/A636E3AF8F03FE838625752100101247?OpenDocument

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28142528/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28273651/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28257519/

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-12-16-navy-surplus_N.htm