Archive for December, 2007

John Markoff on Manycore computing

Monday, December 17th, 2007

John Markoff writes Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust.

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SimpleDB — Amazon’s cloud-based simple data base

Friday, December 14th, 2007

SimpleDB is Amazon’s cloud-based simple data base. It is now in limited beta. This service supports huge datasets, and spreads the data across multiple servers. [via Charles H. Ying]

WiiTube — Wii videos

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

WiiTube presents Wii videos. If you understand this, please explain it to me. (more…)

How to Find a Nintendo Wii

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Frank Gruber offers advice about finding a Nintendo Wii game console. It’s not easy.

Experimental Philosophy

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Vaughan Bell writes about gathering data for thought experiments. He points to a New York Times article on experimental philosophy.

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Mark Boslet and Katherine Conrad: End of the Cubicle?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Mark Boslet and Katherine Conrad write Valley companies dump cubicles for open office spaces.

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Hiroyuki Nishigaki: How to Goodbye Depression

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Hiroyuki Nishigaki writes How to Goodbye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? . Innovative. [via Mind Hacks]