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Monday, October 26, 2009

Weekly Ten (10-26-2009)

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:04 AM PDT

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Billionaire Aids Charity That Aided Him
Thirty years ago today, Sergey Brin, a 6-year-old Soviet boy facing an uncertain future, arrived in the United States with the help of the society.
More @ NYTimes.com

2. White House opens Web site programming to public
The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for http://www.whitehouse.gov - meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.
More @ Physorg

3. Darl Is Out, Farewell Master Gamer
Darl McBride, to the glee of many, is out of a job. I think this signals the real end of all The SCO Group litigation, because I think Mr. McBride was hired specifically to litigate rather than run a software company.
More @ LinuxToday

4. Ps3 laptop courtesy of Ben Heck

More @ HackaDay

5. Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows 7
With much fanfare and even a few parties, Windows 7 has arrived. In this extensive review, Peter Bright dives deep into Microsoft's new OS offering to see what's new, what's still the same, and whether it's worth upgrading.
More @ ArsTechnica

6. Facebook Makeover: The Good, the Bad, and the Backlash
Facebook gave its homepage a makeover ...again. Last Friday the social networking site quietly rolled out some fairly significant changes to the way information is displayed on your homepage.
More @ PCWorld

7. Apple shuts down ZFS open source project
Apple's efforts to support the development of ZFS, an advanced file system originally created by Sun, were officially terminated today in a notice posted by MacOS Forge.
More @ AppleInsider

8. Pentax's limited edition Korejanai K-x DSLR reminds us of Harlequin VW Golf

More @ Engadget

9. Inside the Nobel Prize: How a CCD Works
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded, with the inventors of the CCD getting recognition for the invention which enabled modern digital photography. It has taken a while: Whilst the invention took just one hour, the prize took 40 years to arrive.
More @ Wired

10. 15 Bogeymen From Around The World
The bogeyman is a legendary ghost-like monster. The bogeyman has no specific appearance and conceptions of the monster can vary drastically even from household to household within the same community; in many cases he simply has no set appearance in the mind of a child, but is just an amorphous embodiment of terror.
More @ Listverse