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| Posted: 19 Oct 2009 04:51 AM PDT  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Natural Gas Changes the Energy Map Vast amounts of the clean-burning fossil fuel have been discovered in shale deposits, setting off a gas rush. But how it will affect our energy use is still uncertain. More @ TechnologyReview 2. Miyamoto: New Mario Tests Your Hard-Core Gaming Chops Despite Nintendo's emphasis on accessible gaming for newbies, the upcoming New Super Mario Bros. Wii will be a challenge, says Shigeru Miyamoto. More @ Wired 3. Managing your reputation through search results A few years ago I couldn't wait to get married. Because I was in love, yeah, but more importantly, so that I could take my husband's name and people would stop getting that ridiculous picture from college as a top result when they searched for me on Google. More @ Googleblog 4. NES processor cloned on a FPGA 5. I'll Use Linux When $App Magically Appears I'm sure you've seen this is as often as I have, even from supposed Free Software advocates: "I can't switch completely to Linux now because I still need this $foo application. When a free alternative appears then I'll switch." More @ LinuxToday 6. Shopping with AR You are sitting in a café reading the newspaper and there's a QR code on the page near an article which you found interesting. You've never seen this box symbol in a newspaper before but, since you already know the general purpose of these funny black and white checkered boxes, you ask yourself what this is about. More @ OreillyRadar 7. FreeBSD adds support for Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch Apple's Grand Central Dispatch technology, which debuted in Snow Leopard as a mechanism for optimizing parallelism across multiple cores and processors, has now been ported to FreeBSD. More @ AppleInsider 8. Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming 9. The State of Solid State Hard Drives I've seen a lot of people play The Computer Performance Shell Game poorly. They overinvest in a fancy CPU, while pairing it with limited memory, a plain jane hard drive, or a generic video card. For most users, that fire-breathing quad-core CPU is sitting around twiddling its virtual thumbs most of the time. More @ CodingHorror 10. Coding Simplicity: How to Avoid Feature Creep in Your Life There's a concept in programming called "feature creep" — when a software developer continually adds one feature after another because "wouldn't it be nice" and "why not" and "isn't it cool" and "some users asked for it". More @ Zenhabits  |
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