Blog Heap of Links for the day 29 January 2009

There may be less than meets the eye to the executive orders President Obama issued yesterday to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and prohibit the torture of prisoners in American custody. Those pronouncements may sound dramatic and unequivocal, but experts predict that American policy towards detainees could remain for months or even years pretty close to what it was as President Bush left office.

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — A man who fathered four children with his teenage daughter has been charged with murder after remains of two infants were found in coolers on property where the family once lived, authorities announced Friday. The 47-year-old is charged with second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child, statutory rape, two counts of incest and two counts of abandoning a corpse.

With an understanding of how each operating system treats windows and of how the Taskbar has evolved, it becomes clear that the Windows 7 Taskbar is very much a descendant of its predecessors, and not a Dock clone.

This huge strain of the giant elephant ear was grown from wild collected seed (PES 1003B) from Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, in 2003 by former PDN Research Manager Petra Schmidt. In the wild, the plants reached a massive 9' tall....