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| Posted: 22 Nov 2010 06:35 AM PST  Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. The Cold War: Then and now When Dickie George of the National Security Agency says, "This is life and death and about our freedom and our way of life," he's not talking about the Soviet Union firing nuclear missiles at the U.S. or infiltrating our government with spies bent on subversion. More @ NetworkWorld 2. A curious guide to browsers and the web Twenty years ago this month, Tim Berners-Lee published his proposal for the World Wide Web. Today, the web is an explosion of pages and apps teeming with videos, photos and interactive content. More @ Googleblog 3. Rovio's Angry Birds won't fly on slow Android devices Rovio recently brought Angry Birds to the Android platform, but the popular (and oddly addictive) physics game is suffering performance problems on certain handsets with slow processors.More @ ArsTechnica 4. SmartLCD makes video for microcontrollers easy 5. New directions in web architecture. Again. In 2005, Jesse James Garrett at Adaptive Path published the seminal blog "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications" and ushered in new age of web architecture. Ajax meant using the possibilities latent in JavaScript (specifically, the XMLHttpRequest object) so that a web page could contact the server asynchronously and request new data. More @ O'ReillyRadar 6. What is the Worth of a Person? This is a question that is often on my mind-- what is the worth of a person? Anymore it seems it stops at a dollar value. More @ LinuxToday 7. Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands. More @ PCWorld 8. M55 Beast Electric Bike is quite appropriately named 9. Could the Windows Comparison Game Hurt Linux? "Ah yes, the old old, OLD story," said Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza. "This argument has only been going on since Linux has been suitable for real work and will probably keep going so long as people are paying for both of them. More @ LinuxInsider 10. Top 10 Most Bizarre Modern Jobs For most people, work is obligatory for the sustenance of life. Few are privileged to enjoy a life of complete relaxation, and the lack of a need to make money. For those of us who take part in the daily toil which is the modern working life, here is a list to raise our spirits. More @ Listverse  |
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