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Monday, December 7, 2009



Weekly Ten (12-07-2009)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 06:58 AM PST

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


1. The Fiction Of Climate Science
In 1974, the National Science Board announced: "During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade. Judging from the record of the past interglacial ages, the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end…leading into the next ice age."
More @ Forbes.com

2. Mininova Traffic Plummets After Going 'Legal'
Roughly a week ago, Mininova was still the largest torrent site on the Internet, but this quickly changed after the site's founders removed of millions of torrents to avoid having to pay millions of dollars in fines
More @ TorrentFreak

3. Google Android: on Inevitability, the Dawn of Mobile, and the Missing Leg
If for no other reason than the "Anyone but Apple" crowd NEEDS an alternative, there is an "inevitability" meme associated with Google's Android initiative.
More @ OreillyRadar

4. Nunk on Droise

More @ HackaDay

5. Everything you need to know about HTML5
Is XHTML dead? In July, the XHTML2 working group announced it would be dropping the spec and closing the book on XHTML2. That's XHTML with a 2. Not XHTML.
More @ TechRadar

6. Hands-on: Plasma, KWin improve in KDE SC 4.4 beta 1
A survey of Chinese adolescents finds that over 10 percent of them show signs of moderate Internet addiction, and that this strongly correlates with other injurious behaviors.
More @ ArsTechnica

7. iPod touch use outpaces iPhone, could foster Apple loyalty
A new study of mobile device usage has found that the iPod touch is gaining in share, and suggests that the media player could eventually transition youth to the iPhone.
More @ AppleInsider

8. Rejoice! Cellphones Are Safe Again (Until They Aren't)

More @ Gizmodo

9. Visualization of Ruby's Grammar
As part of the momentum surrounding the Ruby implementer's summit, I have decided to take on a pet project to understand Ruby's grammar better, with the goal of contributing to an implementation-independent specification of the grammar. Matz mentioned during his keynote how parse.y was one of the uglier parts of Ruby, but just how ugly?
More @ NickSieger.com

10. 10 Delights To Try Before You Die
More accurately the title is Ten Foods, Drinks, and Destinations to Try Before You Die. I don't presume that you are about to die, but let's consider our mortality with a generous measure of humor. As Marcus Aurelius said, "Death smiles at us all.
More @ Listverse

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