“Light can travel around the world in 1/10th of a second, and we won’t rest until the speed of light is the only barrier to getting good search results to you,” Singhal noted. Quite a goal. (via Google Aims To Push The Speed Of Light With Realtime Results. Seriously. ) - http://arbitrary-cross-section...
The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That) - http://arbitrary-cross-section...
A product of cosmic collaboration, this new picture of the Crab Nebula combines data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The nebula is the remnant of a stellar explosion 6,000 light-years from Earth that was so powerful people saw the burst in A.D. 1054, according to NASA. (via SPACE... - http://arbitrary-cross-section...
A shrinking population of children in Japan has discouraged toy makers, television networks and other traditional sponsors from funding new programs. That has driven many anime studios—most of which are small shops—toward making animated soft porn and violent movies targeted at adult audiences. At the same time, YouTube and other free Internet... - http://arbitrary-cross-section...
But the other reason programmers are fussy, I think, is that evil begets stupidity. An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work. And it’s not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren’t the ones that win. - http://arbitrary-cross-section...
stevenf:
Turtles all the way down:
I accidentally VNC’ed into the computer I was already using. And in that moment I saw God. - http://arbitrary-cross-section...
Sony will try to differentiate its service from iTunes. One example: Users will be able to upload videos shot on camcorders, save photos taken with digital cameras, and post other digital content to their personal online accounts. That’s how Google’s suite of Net-based services (such as YouTube video-sharing and Picasa photo site) works. At some... - http://arbitrary-cross-section...
A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.
- Hiroaki Masaki
Alana Taylor: The Google Story
A unique take on the first 11 years of the one of the most well-known start-ups on the planet: Google. - http://arbitrary-cross-section...