Book is the new cool. (Thanks Matt Lee!)
I just can't believe I didn't bookmark this before!
Beautiful, eloquent response to a Revealing Error post. "In the real world, police and prosecutors can’t help but exercise discretion with every decision they make. And while it’s true there is rampant abuse of the power to decide when to drop the legal hammer on some schlub’s life, that discretion is the humanity in our justice system. People are messy and inconsistent, but only human judgments yield human justice."
This is a great followup to one of the initial Revealing Errors about Google News.
Photograph number 2^31-1 was the first photograph in Flickr not to fit in a 32-bit integer and it, any photo after it, broke quite a few programs that interacted with Flickr.
