links for 2009-03-10

930 cities and towns in 80 countries have already committed to VOTE EARTH for Earth Hour 2009, as part of the worlds first global election between Earth and global warming.

Do you recall an exercise you might have done to improve your fitness – perhaps at school or as part of a sports team – where you have to run up and down a 50m track, reaching each end before a buzzer goes off? And with every few lengths, as you get more and more tired, the buzzes get closer and closer together, forcing you to run faster and faster?

The term "technical debt" was coined by Ward Cunningham to describe the obligation that a software organization incurs when it chooses a design or construction approach that's expedient in the short term but that increases complexity and is more costly in the long term.

SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.