Today's links I posted to Twitter

Why ad blocking is devastating to the sites you love - Ars Technica, via Daring Fireball.

The "Trade of Queens," last volume in Charles Stross's "Merchant Families" series, comes out this month. W00t!

Apple iPad will fly off the shelves - Computerworld

My current iPhone home screen. @kottke's idea.

The New York Times Introduces a Web Site - 1996 announcement on the New York Times' site. Via @DavidJoachim

A perfectly framed assassination in Dubai - WSJ.com: Stepped-up surveillance technology may be tipping the scales in the cat-and-mouse game between spies and their targets. Robert Baer on the current state of spycraft.