Robert X. Cringely (pen name) writes about Anil Nigam and Jim White, and their company, Antek Peripherals, Inc. which is developing a radically new disk drive optimized for low power and fast start-up times.
Curry Consumption and Cognitive Function in the Elderly is a paper published in American Journal of Epidemiology. The study shows a correlation between curry consumption level and cognitive function in elderly Asians.
A friend writes about the Blackberry Pearl.
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With its extremely sleek T-Mobile leather case, the black-as-night Pearl is a metrosexual’s dream phone. Sophisticated and thin, it has an outstanding high-resolution display, and a BIG bright white pearl of a trackball for navigating a well thought out user interface.
Sarah Allen of Laszlo Systems, has a fun (if longish) read about slide rules and mechanical calculators. She quotes from Mary Houbolt, who’s first job title was “Computer.”
A friend writes about my recent decision to experiment with delivering a partial (rather than full text) syndication feed.
Please do NOT click on this link if you believe the National Security Agency should be listening in to everything every United States Citizen says on the phone, in email or elsewhere. You have been warned.
Kent Newsome asks for advice on good PhotoShop books.
Brad Feld writes about Ruby, PHP and who is doing what to whom in the realm of dynamic languages. Worth a read just for the graphs comparing Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP. [via techmeme]
GAIM is my favorite multi-protocol instant messaging application. The latest beta (2.0 beta 4) offers some pleasant eye candy.
This animated 3D engine model is stunning. Watch it all the way through, so you get to enjoy watching internal combustion in action.
Tedium is yet another “to-do” web service. It looks interesting, but I have not bothered to compare it with other similar systems.