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Month: October 2007
Microsoft Sabotage
You may have been misled, but now that everyone can see almost all of the primary sources (the remaining documents are hidden behind Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Ecma firewalls), please stop repeating falsehoods about either my conduct as TG1 Convenor, or the treatment of dissent by the majority favoring ES4 in TG1. If you have any documents to publish that shed light on Microsoft’s actions and intentions in Ecma TC39-TG1, I welcome them.
microsoft is unsurprisingly trying to block EcmaScript 4, a competitor to their Silverlight efforts
Rorschach Economics
Gregor Smith of Queen’s University has discovered an amazing new relationship, Japan’s Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan.
Search results for rothfuss
ha. this is a pretty sweet email archive. suck it, ugly email archive with a black page background. you know who you are
Top 10 Genetic Enhancements
these have already been done in mammals (and hence could presumably be done in humans).
Folding@home gets Guinness record
Guinness has certified the project as the world’s most powerful distributed computing system. Folding@home topped 1 petaflop last month. By comparison, the well-known SETI@home project has topped out at 265 teraflops.
Folding@Home, thanks to the playstation, is now at 1 Petaflops
50% of Manhattan Trips Could be Done by Bike
Gehl thinks that the political pressures arising from gas prices and the green movement will force the city to adopt bicycling fast. Real change may be visible here within 5 years, and that the city could be profoundly altered in ~10 years.
Messenger GTalk integration
MS is trying to work out a way for WLM users to chat with AIM/GTalk/ICQ: basic internal version of GTalk working now
yes please? the IM balkanization is so embarrassing
Newsrooms use Google Maps
I talked with an assistant chief with the Los Angeles Police Department who said that ‘we had your map up at the emergency options center’
Rotten Neighbor
a mashup with potential
Gregor J. Rothfuss 