On March 27th, 2008 with 149 comments
For months now, I've been geeked about Amazon's EC2 as a web hosting service. But until today, in my opinion, it wasn't ready for prime time. Now it is, for...
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On January 24th, 2008 with 219 comments
The law says telecom providers can't wiretap your phone calls or net traffic, but as long as their taps are legal or they acted in good faith they're already...
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On November 14th, 2007 with 36 comments
Interesting news on the massively-parallelizable software front. The Hadoop
project at Yahoo, after showing
great results over the past year, has launched a...
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Java,
Networking,
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On October 19th, 2007 with 2 comments
So apparently Van Halen was playing a concert, and when they got to "Jump," the pre-recorded synth track was played back at 48 KHz instead of 44.1. The...
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Idle
On October 15th, 2007 with 3 comments
"Giuliani, grin on his face, said it was the first time he's been asked about an intergalactic attack." Sure, he's smiling now. He won't be so cheerful when...
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Idle
On October 6th, 2007 with 3 comments
A British mother has finally figured out the cause of depression and negativity: it's books with unhappy endings. But a cheery fire will lift our spirits.
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Idle
On October 5th, 2007 with 2 comments
Josh Millard brings us retro-histo -- images whose histograms match the images themselves.
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Idle
On October 4th, 2007 with 3 comments
It probably adjusts position really gently and carefully, but I like to imagine the stop-snoring pillow gets frustrated if you don't stop, and eventually would...
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Idle
On October 2nd, 2007 with 2 comments
MIT EECS Assistant Professor Scott Aaronson was just notified that Australian actresses are plagiarizing his quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers. The...
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Idle
On October 1st, 2007 with 0 comments
The latest XKCD comic: Ballmer Peak.
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Idle
On September 29th, 2007 with 3 comments
WASHINGTON, DC -- Top physicists from several major American universities appeared before a Congressional committee Monday to request $50 billion for a science...
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Idle
On September 26th, 2007 with 1 comments
Noooo... so... many... puns...
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Idle
On September 24th, 2007 with 1 comments
A little tip... when you rip off someone's computer, don't use it to show off your tats in their Flickr account. Update: 09/26 by J : Found him. Says he...
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Idle
On September 20th, 2007 with 1 comments
RottenNeighbor.com is the future of mashups. Of course the internet is for anonymously venting about the awful people around you. Databases of rage bring peace...
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Idle
On September 19th, 2007 with 4 comments
We got a little kiss and tell last night on Larry King Live (starts at 2:20). Kathy Griffin, who's been dating the Woz since August, is open and honest with...
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Idle
On November 21st, 2006 with 1033 comments
There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that
goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important
thing in the world, but...
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On November 16th, 2006 with 201 comments
Geekgal writes "Red Hat has slammed the door shut on any possibility of entering into a patent protection deal similar to the one Microsoft recently announced...
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On July 26th, 2006 with 77 comments
I spend a lot of time with my head buried
in code, and every time I pick my head up it feels like the future is
closer than I thought. So I like coming to...
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On July 2nd, 2006 with 245 comments
haroldag writes "Freedb, the free music database used by tons of CD ripping software, has been shut down due to a disagreement among its developers. One of its...
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On February 8th, 2006 with 698 comments
belmolis writes "George C. Deutsch, who tried to muzzle top NASA climate scientist James Hansen and ordered NASA web designers to add the word 'theory' to...
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On February 1st, 2006 with 258 comments
The Whorf hypothesis claims that one's native language influences perception and thought. Researchers at UC-Berkeley and U-Chicago reasoned that, since...
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On January 9th, 2006 with 666 comments
On Thursday, President Bush signed into law a must-pass
DoJ appropriations bill
which contained a
little gotcha for the internet.
For decades, making anonymous...
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On October 7th, 2005 with 165 comments
A short time ago, Oracle announced its acquisition of Innobase, the Finnish company that makes the GPL'd InnoDB table storage engine. Among MySQL users, the...
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Programming,
Software,
IT
On August 10th, 2005 with 153 comments
OSCON 2005
was held in a convention center this year, instead of a hotel, because it just
got too big (2000+ people). Too big, in fact, for pudge and myself to...
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IT,
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On July 19th, 2005 with 113 comments
Boing Boing links to an interesting story today. If an antibiotic kills 95% of a germ species, but 5% bear a gene for resistance, indiscriminate use of it will...
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On June 30th, 2005 with 698 comments
Chip Salzenberg writes "In April of this year, Health Market Science of King of Prussia, PA, told police that they feared I was misappropriating trade secrets....
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On March 2nd, 2005 with 732 comments
Briefs defending Grokster's right to exist were filed yesterday in MGM v. Grokster, from Intel, Creative Commons [PDF], and many others. Among them, 17...
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On November 17th, 2004 with 777 comments
Thomas Hawk writes "PVRblog is reporting today that TiVo will begin to place banner advertisements on your screen when you are fast forwarding. As one of the...
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On November 13th, 2004 with 117 comments
Newsweek has a small story on MSNBC: Not Slackers After All?. It seems the media jumped to conclusions when it said, right after the election, that 18-to-29...
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Politics
On November 11th, 2004 with 826 comments
The scientist's job is to discover truth about the natural world, and the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately. Why are these two...
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