links for 2008-05-20

May 19, 1780: Darkness at Noon Enshrouds New England

i’d never heard about this: weird

(tags: 1780 history darknessatnoon)
Daring Fireball Linked List: May 2008

“So let’s get this straight. The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded from a server that isn’t theirs, over a network that isn’t theirs, because, well, just because.” – pretty much, yeah

(tags: riaa johngruber economics music industry)
Subways are for sleeping, By Edmund G. Love (Harper’s Magazine)

fascinating bit of post WWII American history

(tags: city culture poverty urban homelessness wwii via:joe)
Welcome – doctype – Google Code

an MSDN for the web, by the web? ok, i’m interested

(tags: google code doctype reference css html javascript documentation development dom)
Compy 386!

the origins of Trogdor the Burninator

(tags: trogdor burninator strongbad humor cartoons)