That link is a really interesting read. In particular, this quote struck me:

I've never heard this before. A casual search turned up nothing, how do you know this?

Or the one-liner to watch AJE from the command-line:
rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y "aljazeera_en_veryhigh?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.04.08.2011-01-14072625/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf -p "http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ -a "aljazeeraflashlive-live?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" | mplayer -
Other 24/7 live RTMP streams here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/564760/

The same techniques that silent PC nerds use to isolate their hard drive to keep it quiet would of course help reduce vibrations (I mean, that's the point). There is the thread detailing the techniques used to suspend/isolate HDD's at http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8240/.

So why does every torrent's that I download from isoHunt filename start with [isoHunt] ?
If they were a neutral strictly search site they wouldn't be drawing so much attention.

Interesting, but she does sort of sidestep the whole 'Hello World!' part of a hello world program.

Rumors have it that they're porting Source to all major platforms including Linux.
Comes from the wikipedia article on Postal 3 showing a 2010 release date under Steam with OSX and Linux support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_III

I know this is all vaporware design shit but part of that first video for the future-watch says it has gesture control. This is totally cool. If you had a smart watch that covered the lower wrist couldn't you use sensors to read tendons? I might actually wear a watch if I could type on it like an old school chord-board.

here's conway's life in a fullscreen 20x20 table: http://etcet.net/projects/conway.html
it gets about 2-3 fps on my atom box. 100x100 is about 10spf

You don't have to drop a mint to get a good keyboard. Check out your local free geek (or equivalent) and you'll likely find an IBM model m in a giant pile of keyboard for under $10. They won't break but you will care about it dearly.

What kind of network do you need to do this kind of thing streaming 1080p?

You've got some years on me. I appreciated their pc rips for those years when iso's had taken over and I was still 56k-ing it. Who cares if the video was missing and it took 3 hours to unpack the sound, their cracktros always made up for it. I don't know if I'd even run a cracktro if I somehow got one these days (there's no trust anymore). Here's their deathtro: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=11416

If the top500 list is really a good indicator, this system would have definitely made the 2004/06 list and maybe the 2004/11. You can basically build a 5 year old top 500 supercomputer today for $15k. It would have been top 10 in 1999/06. So it's 10 years from top 10 supercomputer to a personal, desktop "super"-computer but it'll probably take even less time for today's fastest machines to become affordable.

Also remember this is your personal supercomputer. It's working on your jobs 24/7. And really, 1/40th of current "super"-computer speeds for HPC testing, development and even actual relevant work really isn't that bad. You could get some serious work done of one of these boxes (or any generic box like it).

I've got one of these too. I love it for what it does: perform all my 24/7 computing desires (except gaming) while drawing very little power and producing no noise (well, except when it's playing 1080p or stuttering on SD web flash video).
It's really over-kill if he just wants a server.
If I were to buy a server it would be a rack.

I bet it'd be easy to spot a tracker like thepiratebay on the onion network if you had enough node information. Though I think it'd work for smaller trackers or if tor had much wider use. Or it'd work well if trackers played a much smaller role in peering (e.g. DHT) and were only polled once per client.
I think you've got the right idea and I'd even wager onion-router trackers already exists.

Because when I want to scrape tracker.thepiratebay.org where do I send my packets? Bittorent trackers are inherently public (ok, there are private trackers but I can still ping them) and centralized. If you hide the tracker, then you can't use it.