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Opensource Obscure
Google’s O3D and WebGL the next wave for virtual worlds? - http://justingibbs.com/2009...
Hier is another article focussing on O3D as possible tool for Virtual Worlds in the Browser: http://blog.iliveisl.com/virtual.... We've also been discussing that earlier this year in a XING group, but (as usual on xing) I cannot find it... - Torrid Luna
Liz Dorland =Chimera
Export/imported Chimera's bridge from SL Beta grid to SL Jokaydia w/Meerkat. Aditi: http://twitpic.com/qkmwp SL: http://twitpic.com/qkn2o
Export/imported Chimera's bridge from SL Beta grid to SL Jokaydia w/Meerkat. Aditi: http://twitpic.com/qkmwp SL: http://twitpic.com/qkn2o
Export/imported Chimera's bridge from SL Beta grid to SL Jokaydia w/Meerkat. Aditi: http://twitpic.com/qkmwp SL: http://twitpic.com/qkn2o
kosmar
sound etwas out of sync, immernoch mein bisher bestes video, finde ich: http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
Dizzy Banjo
http://kindofbloop.com/ listening to Kind of Bloop. This is utter genius..
Lem Skall
Mathias Richel
Physik der Festanstellung: Bei Hitze dehnt sich die Pause aus.
harper
the best part about this is that after years and years of hosting my own shit, i am trying my hardest to stop. - added by harper reed's google reader - harper
Cool. - Zachary TG
Jauder Ho
English Russia » Sapphire Knife - http://englishrussia.com/...
English Russia » Sapphire Knife
English Russia » Sapphire Knife
"Russian guys makes knives made of sapphire. These knives can be easily taken inside the airplane in your handbag, for example if you care about your right to use your knife anywhere you want. These knives cannot be discovered by any sort of metal-detector, they have none metal parts at all. Their blades are being made from artificial sapphire, the same material that is being used to make non-scratchable watches by leading Swiss brands. Handles are made of the bone. Only diamonds exceed it in the hardness, so anybody can easily make his name carved on the airplanes bull’s-eye airplane window. It scratches glass without any difficulty and can be sharpened only with special diamond whetstone." - Jauder Ho from Bookmarklet
This reminds me of Raven and his glass knives in Snow Crash. - Jauder Ho
paniaguai
SL Office Hours (slOfficeHours) on Twitter - http://twitter.com/slOffic...
SL Office Hours (slOfficeHours) on Twitter
berndschmitz
@uknaus und das ist meine Zusammenfassung vom Wochenende http://twitpic.com/9fak8
@uknaus und das ist meine Zusammenfassung vom Wochenende http://twitpic.com/9fak8
Ideia Boa
YouTube - Rocking The Metaverse - The 1st Cross Virtual Worlds Live Concert Tour http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Rocking The Metaverse - The 1st Cross Virtual Worlds Live Concert Tour http://ow.ly/gdmx
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Gaby K. Slezák
Deutscher OpenSim Hosting-Service: Virtyou GmbH • Virtuelle Welten "to go" für reale Firmen und Institutionen #sl - http://www.openpr.de/news...
Deutscher OpenSim Hosting-Service: Virtyou GmbH • Virtuelle Welten "to go" für reale Firmen und Institutionen #sl
Hier sind Sie in guten Händen - Homepage unter http://virtyou.com/ - Gaby K. Slezák from Bookmarklet
James Black
Woman Drugged 10 Different Men And Then Raped Them - http://www.news.com.au/perthno...
Thomas Lienenlüke
Hätte nie gedacht, das mein aktuelles Lieblingslied mal eines von #Knorkator wäre - http://www.youtube.com/watch... grossartig!
Hätte nie gedacht, das mein aktuelles Lieblingslied mal eines von #Knorkator wäre - http://bit.ly/7sDob grossartig!
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Dickbuttkick
Dickbuttkick
Doubledown_inSL
RT @uberdragon: 15 Most Offensive, Banned and Rejected Ads of All Time! http://oddee.com/item_96...
Kevin Marks
Brilliant spoof history of programming languages: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009...
"Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript" - Kevin Marks
"Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." - Kevin Marks
Max
Max
Aus zuverlässiger Quelle habe ich gehört, dass neben Apple noch Oracle, Fiat, @timpritlove und deine Mutter Twitter kaufen wollen.
Benedikt Koehler
Am Nachbartisch im ICE sitzen zwei Werber und planen Blogger-/Twitterkampagne - "das kann dann ja eine Praktikantin machen"
kosmar
diplix: „Und nicht vergessen: Immer in die Armbeuge niesen, nicht in die Hand.“ - http://tinyurl.com/d3yhyk - http://twitter.com/diplix...
kirscheplotzer
WAAAH - ich kann jetzt Friendfeed-Kommentare als Twitter-@-Reply posten. Leute, Ihr findet mich jetzt öfter in FF. Definitv.
Einziger Nachteil des neuen FF - Es geht eine "Re-Follow"-Welle der Twitter Kontakte los :) - Thorsten Zoerner
Ob das so gut ist. Wieviele Plattformen soll man denn noch alles zum Twittern nutzen? :-) - Sebastian Voss
Besser wär, wenn man alle tweets aus ff lesen könnte. - Andrea Sturm
gute Wahl, das neue #FriendFeed ist definitiv das bessere #Twitter :-) - Rainer Helmes
ja, ich werde jetzt auch sicher mehr hier zu finden sein! - Annette Schwindt
ja wenn das so ist ;-) #friendfeed #twitter - Markus Jakobs
ups, sehe gerade, dass ich den #Friendfeed von @kehrseite noch gar nicht abonniert habe - hab's soeben nachgeholt :-) - Rainer Helmes
GOTTi
Shadow rendering code have been merged to the main RC branch!! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Shadow rendering code have been merged to the main RC branch!!
but it doesn't run on Macs yet, does it? - Gaby K. Slezák
yeah, according the wiki it doesn't work on Macs. Strange... - Opensource Obscure
Opensource Obscure
Shadow rendering code have been merged to the main RC branch!! - http://www.flickr.com/photos... (via http://friendfeed.com/gotti...)
Shadow rendering code have been merged to the main RC branch!!
Mehul Ved
How to install adobe air on gentoo/sabayon?
Any idea to install it? I have the same problem ;) - Xupeng Yun
Get the air development kit and extract it, usually place it in /opt directory. - Mehul Ved
Simon
Google uncloaks once-secret server | CNET News - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
Google uncloaks once-secret server | CNET News
"Google's big surprise: each server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of standard shipping containers--each with 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts. [...] It may sound geeky, but a number of attendees--the kind of folks who run data centers packed with thousands of servers for a living--were surprised not only by Google's built-in battery approach, but by the fact that the company has kept it secret for years." - Simon from Bookmarklet
Hmm, I was in a Google data center two years ago (not one of their big ones) and it didn't have individual power supplies and didn't have machines in shipping containers. Seems to me that the shipping container would impede heat transfer and would add unnecessary expense. I'm sure they dont use them everywhere. - Robert Scoble
Has CNet been "Scobled"? Site's pretty much toast. - Kenton
Hey Robert, Sun has been doing the shipping containers. Check out http://www.sun.com/product... - Paul Wade
That's pretty darn cool. Hope it's not an April fools joke. - Alex Scoble
Alex: I wonder. The servers I saw inside Google had Seagate drives. These are Hitachis. But I know that Google refreshes all its machines quite often. This looks real and makes sense. - Robert Scoble
Paul: I know Sun was doing the shipping container thing, but that only makes sense when you need one small data center on premises, or something like that. Building a whole warehouse/data center like that doesn't make any sense. - Robert Scoble
Plus I know they don't just use one brand of drives. - Alex Scoble
Google has lots of data centers all over the place, though, and I could see Google using a shipping container in some weird location. Just not in its big datacenter up in Oregon. - Robert Scoble
Scoble, MSFT has data centers that are silos for containers. Makes a lot of sense if you think of having to swap in and out huge numbers of machines every 18-24 months. - Aaron deMello
Aaron: wild. I'd love to visit one of those huge data centers and see how they do airflow management. - Robert Scoble
By the way, CNET is down right now (all of CNET, not just the one this article points to). - Robert Scoble
Yeah, I wonder if it's more efficient in the long run to have separate air and power handling for each container. Probably makes it a lot quicker to build up large server farms. Just connect the modules and download the software. - Alex Scoble
The shipping container thing could make sense if they were stuffed into a shelving system - open the one end to allow for cooling, plug the whole box full of boxes in, and go. There was one company that was doing prefab hotels in this kind of fashion. build shell, and stuff pre-fab rooms in the slots. Do the datacenter the same way. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yeah, CNET is having problems but it seems to be intermittent. - Alex Scoble
Like giant Drobos :-) - Tim Ostler
The most interesting thing to me is the shipping container concept. That's the future model of efficiency. Portable data centers that you can drop anywhere you need 'em. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Robert, each of the large vendors has their own solution to airflow management. Take a look at what Rackable and Verari are doing, quite interesting. Verari's are actually portable and designed to work outdoors. - Aaron deMello
With these sorts of cooling requirements you'd think they'd bury the shipping containers 20 feet underground or in old coal mines or something. - Andrew Leyden
The one thing I can tell you is that no Google employee will go near commenting on something like this. It is made *very* clear that anything touching datacenters is super-uber confidential. - Joe Beda ()
I think it's a very smart design on Google's part. Years ago, when I worked in the Sprint's Central Offices the telecom battery backups were hideously large and only used when the diesel generators failed. Matter of fact, I think many of those beer keg size batteries were decades old. - Donna Payne
This "secret server" was revealed in 2006 (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive...). I personally looked at the power cable coming out the back of the power supply, being routed back *in* the case, *under* the mobo and out through the front, and had a Luke Skywalker reaction: "What a piece of junk!" Which I suppose is the cue for Han Solo to walk out of the... more... - Karim
my favorite quote from that 2006 article: " he said that in his first week working [at Google] they flew anyone who wanted to go, to denver to go skiing.... during the work week too ahaha" soooo it's like "super-efficient data centers, scrimping and saving every penny OMG DID SOMEONE SAY SKIING? FIRE UP THE PARTY PLANE!!!" :-D - Karim
Ok, so how many of you are now trying to build one of these at home? That would be a good MAKE episode. - Andrew Leyden
I bet all those $15 batteries would be a maintenance nightmare in a typical datacenter. - Gabe
The article has been updated with additional photos and details: "Google's PUE [Power Usage Effectiveness] scores are enviably low, but the company is working to lower them further. [...] "[From] early on, there was an emphasis on the dollar per (search) query," Hoelzle said. "We were forced to focus. Revenue per query is very low."" - Simon
kosmar
Design: The Periodic Table of Typefaces - http://i.gizmodo.com/5169466...
Design: The Periodic Table of Typefaces
Grace McDunnough
“Your cup is upside down”  This was a very helpful reminder this morning. - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...
“Your cup is upside down”  This was a very helpful reminder this morning.
Bernd Sommerfeld
mashable
The Twitter Song Argh! Must. Get. This. Song. Outta. My. Head. - http://mashable.tumblr.com/post...
The Twitter Song
Argh! Must. Get. This. Song. Outta. My. Head.
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