Links for Tuesday, August 7, 2007

• Wall Street Journal: How Credit Got So Easy And Why It’s Tightening – “Recent events show that financial innovations meant to distribute risk can end up multiplying it instead, in ways neither regulators nor investors fully understand.“
• NASA Space Flight: Orion Landings to be Splashdowns – KSC buildings to be demolished – “The water landing scenario – previously only required during a launch abort – is one of several items that are being baselined into the next design cycle as a weight savings measure.“
• Niall Kennedy: JavaScript Map API Comparison – “Every time you add a widget or other external feature to your website you are handing over part of your web page experience and performance to a third party. The responsiveness and total page load of these external services is one way obsessive geeks tune and tweak their sites for optimal performance. Let’s take a look at how the major mapping players performed.“