Cloudy Thinking

Scott Shane and Neil A. Lewis write in The New York Times: At Sept. 11 Trial, Tale of Missteps and Management. It is a sad tale.

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Fifteen beautiful pictures The Top 15 Skylines in the World. [via Chuquet]

Karl Bode writes in Broadband Reports BellSouth Wants New Orleans Network Shut Down.

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Cho Jin-seo writes in The Korea Times Mouse Plays When Gamer’s Away. It’s about macros that automagically plan an online game (to accumulate wealth) and external hardware devices used to automate play.

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Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) is exciting!

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Sun SPOT: Simplified Development of Wireless Transducers Using Java Technology

Researchers at Sun Microsystems Laboratories (Sun Labs) are developing a system that takes major strides toward solving the key challenges that are inhibiting development of wireless sensor and transducer applications.

Based on a 32 bit ARM CPU and an 11 channel 2.4GHz radio, Sun SPOT radically simplifies the process of developing wireless sensor and transducer applications. The platform enables developers to build wireless transducer applications in Java using a sensor board for I/O, an 802.15.4 radio for wireless communication, and use familiar Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), such as NetBeans to write code.

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SuperMike has published a dead simple Introduction to Firewalls at Nuxified Forums. If I can understand it, so can you. But do you care?

Larisa Alexandrovna writes in The Raw Story Rove said cooperating in CIA leak inquiry.

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Jia-Rui Chong of the Los Angeles Times gives an update about the rapid spread of H5N1 virus avian flu.

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Waiter Rant is an exceptionally fun blog. Addictive. [via reddit]

Michael Wolff’s presents a fun read about Steve Jobs — iPod, Therefore I Am — in Vanity Fair.

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You will want to view this video of a recent talk by Sim’s creator Will Wright. His new game (not yet released) Spore uses procedures to generate game content. Very cool stuff.

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David Bau has posted a thoughtful story about what may have caused the Vista debacle.

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