• R2-D2 Projector in Action Video (Verdict: A Must Have)
  It's a good thing I don't have three grand available to blow on something incredibly cool right now....
  (tags: technology starwars gadgets r2d2 video dvd projector ipod dock millenium-falcon remote control)
• Huh?: "The fact that it runs on its own interpreter, bad."
  Another followup to the JRuby or Groovy piece, I'm glad the Erlang folk are on top of this FUD.
  (tags: programming erlang vm jvm bytecode jinterface jini)
• jkndrkn: Erlang Versus MPI - Final Results and Source Code
  (tags: c erlang mpi parallel performance programming benchmark)
• Simple XML in Erlang
  (tags: erlang programming xml)
• Network Programming in Erlang
  (tags: erlang programming sockets networking)
• ObjLisp
  (tags: lisp objective-c programming)
• Convince me to use Python: Does Django really scale better than Rails?
  (tags: django programming python rails ruby scalability)
• Can There be a Viable Free Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab?
  (tags: mathematics opensource programming python sage library)
• The Problem with Threads
  "For concurrent programming to become mainstream, we must discard threads as a programming model."
  (tags: concurrency programming threads)
• Sunrgi Exits Stealth, Promises to be as Cheap as Coal
  (tags: energy solar environment sungri)
• MIT reinvents the Post-It note... with Post-It notes
  (tags: mit post-it ocr rfid sms quickies video)
• Graphene-based Gadgets May Be Just Years Away
  (tags: graphene lcd indium)
• Stanford kicks off parallel programming effort (EETimes)
  (tags: stanford programming parallel concurrency multicore)
• Can CUDA language open up parallel processing? (EETimes Europe)
  (tags: programming parallel cuda gpu nvidia)

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Comedy.com: Homeless James Bond

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The following tweet by Twitter's Evan Williams is in response to a story on TechCrunch that suggested Twitter plans to abandon Ruby on Rails.

Twitter / Evan Williams: FWIW: Twitter currently has...

When I saw the above link on reddit to Evan William's tweet, I clicked on it. The Twitter web site responded with the correct page. I then clicked on the "Evan Williams" link below the tweet. But Twitter wouldn't respond.

I've been trying and trying to load that page on Twitter while I write this, but no dice. Maybe Evan should reconsider.

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Yahoo! News: ARREST BUSH

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• 'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks? (EETimes.com)
  I wonder how the Electrical Engineering grads of Spring 2008 are feeling knowing they just graduated as the last class that will learn the wrong stuff...
  (tags: electronics memristor hp memory)
• Erlang: It’s About Reliability (Steve Vinoski’s Blog)
  (tags: erlang languages programming reliability scalability)
• Erlectricity: Hi Ruby, I’m Erlang.
  (tags: ruby integration erlang parallel concurrency programming)
• Interoperability Happens - Groovy or JRuby?
  Note that Ted is wrong when it comes to Erlang not having "managability and monitorability baked in". Ted, meet OTP. OTP, educate Ted.
  (tags: languages programming ruby groovy erlang)
• Thoughts on Dating Erlang
  (tags: erlang programming concurrency)
• What’s the erlangish way?
  (tags: programming python erlang)

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TheZoo: Excuse me….who’s an elitist?

Hopefully she doesn't mean that literally and she'd actually leave some opportunities for the rest of America...

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This problem is widely reported on Apple's Support discussion groups, I haven't checked it lately but last time I did there was no known solution.

Sometimes I can get an external display to work even if the main display won't, but it's not perfect. I have to reboot the machine to get the main display back.

I really hope Apple fixes this soon, I've never had so many issues with sleep with a Mac as I had with this MBP (2.4GHz), my first Intel-based Mac. Actually I've pretty much never had any issues with any of my Macs before this one.

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• Donald Knuth: “I trust my family jewels only to Linux”
  (tags: knuth multicore linux programming parallel)
• Scalable Web Apps: Erlang + Python
  (tags: erlang json mochiweb programming python scalability web)
• Introducing ioke
  Ola Bini is working on a new Io-like language for the JVM. Here is the introduction/announcement. Currently it's vapour but he's working on it. :-)
  (tags: ioke io ruby jvm language programming prototype olabini)
• MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM (InfoQ)
  (tags: ruby smalltalk programming avibryant gemstone maglev rubinius concurrency scalability)
• Let some other process fix the error (Long): msg#00350
  Joe Armstrong's followup to Jay's "let it fail" philosophy
  (tags: concurrency erlang design errors exceptions programming philosophy armstrong)
• Re: catching errors from linked processes (Long): msg#00329
  Jay discusses Erlang's error handling approach. See also: Joe Armstrong's response
  (tags: concurrency erlang design errors exceptions programming philosophy)
• erlang-beanstalk
  (tags: erlang beanstalkd programming queue scalability)
• Beanstalkd
  (tags: distributed queue memory programming scalability)
• Learning Erlang
  (tags: erlang programming examples)
• What if Objective-C and WebObjects had made it big…
  (tags: objective-c webobjects java next eof openstep apple cocoa)
• ESPN - Central Washington offers the ultimate act of sportsmanship
  (tags: community news sports softball sportsmanship)
• Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element
  (tags: memristor computing engineering computers electronics memory)
• HP Discovers Potential "God Particle" of Electronics
  (tags: computers memristor memory engineering hp)

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