A do-it-yourself linux powered automated bartender. How cool is that? Read more »

The iStory Creator lets you create text games for your ipod. In addition to creating your own, you can download games other people have made. It’s free. Worth a look. Read more »

Jeff, a developer on the IE team at Microsoft, has described what exactly is going to be different in the new version of IE that’s going to ship as part of Windows XP SP2. It doesn’t look like the rendering engine will be changed at all, but rather the changes will be more about increasing usability. Of course, there is the addition of blocking pop ups that has been talked about everywhere. IE will also gain the ability to better control how ActiveX controls are downloaded and installed. While I haven’t had to mess with ActiveX controls much in IE, this seems like a good thing. The last feature Jeff Read more »

Once upon a time there was this small design firm called 37signals that developed this neat little web-based project managment system referred to as Basecamp. The interesting thing about this system was not the fact that it was designed by 37signals, but that is was developed in Ruby. This is the framework that Basecamp was developed with. Read more »

So this Microsoft guy started a new column and decided to talk about a new filesystem in a new OS that Microsoft is developing that is slated to be released in 3008. Interesting read about the future :P Read more »

One knock against Java in the geek community is its lack of generics. I have never found the need to use generics before, but maybe my programming is less hardcore than others. This article provides a nice introduction to generics in the 1.5 release of Java by Sun (OPEN SOURCE IT…sorry). Read more »

Not just another weblog, net.narrative environments is also a research platform exploring the dynamics of networked culture. Laura reflects on both netwar and open source, and on the tools used to produce and evolve the site itself. Read more »

For any Linux folks looking for a pretty sweet wallpaper (or anyone who loves Linux and penguins), I have found it. Read more »

Web services are going to rule the world! At least that is what most of us have been saying for the last two years and the only thing to really come out of it are Amazon’s Web Services (which kick major ass) and RSS (versions 1-34.7). Anyways, this is a good little article for all the C# people in the crowd (don’t be afraid to standup). Read more »

I don’t know anything about this stuff, so I’ll let this quote speak for it: PHOENIX is a general-purpose state-of-the-art stellar and planetary atmosphere code. It can calculate atmospheres and spectra of stars all across the HR-diagram including main sequence stars, giants, white dwarfs, stars with winds, TTauri stars, Novae, Supernovae, brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets. What’s most interesting is the different platforms that it’s been tested on — Itanium2, P4, Athlon64, Apple G4 and DP G5, and some parallel architecture in the IBM Regatta Power4 — and the sometimes staggering benchmark results. For details, check out the Computing link, under Other Topics. The G5 essentially blows all the Read more »