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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves Orcs. -John Rogers Two Novels that can change your life...

24 November 2011

Computers

GreenArrays is Chuck Moore's 144 CPU processors, very low power. Of course it is in Forth

Storm - think real time hadoop, but in Clojure. Announcement Nathan Marz has done quite a few interesting things

20 November 2011

Graphics

Jim Blinn's Corner on the Graphics Pipeline comes recommended

Unifying rasterization and ray casting

Rasterization on Larrabee

Education

Free Stanford classes. They keep adding more...

Windows

One of the kid's Windows 7 boxes fell over today, amusingly 60 days after we bought it. It turns out, running msconfig and turning off the Macafee firewall fixes the problem. I guess the subscription expired.

19 November 2011

Computers

USB stick with dual core System

16 November 2011

Lisp

Zen Xserver in Lisp

Computers

Hard Drives vs SSDs

ZFS Dedup

Steve Jobs on focus. This is OpenDOC cancel talks

Steve Jobs and role models

Some Martin Fowler article.

Boston and startups.

Rethinking the nature of files

V6 Unix ported to modern C and x86. Actual Link

Genetics

DNA carrys memory of your childhold living conditions

Lisp

Lisp Book from ECLM 2011, and some additional notes

Zen a X11 server in lisp

Story about how MS killed their tablet

Wealth

A bunch of articles about wealth and worry and locks

Financial Pro loses his home.

Misc

24 hours of Fukushima

Working at home

Reuse of modules

and information display


Bruce O'Neel

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