2008

“this is the best example of visual story telling I’ve seen...”
— From a review of WALL-E

“When the network becomes as fast as the processor, the...”
— Eric Schmidt in 1993 via Nick...

“If truth lies in the unlinkable, does life lie in the...”
— Nick Carr

“For Google, and for its users, the unlinkable does not just...”
— Nick Carr

“genomic information has medical implications, but it is not...”
— Thomas Goetz

“If you had told me 5 years ago, the boring data center would...”
— Vinnie Mirchandani

“Fifty years ago, men ordered Manhattans, women drank Mai...”
— The Case for Cocktails by...

Iron Man: The closing sequence

“Our university has no formal policy governing electronic...”
— Chronicle Careers: 6/6/2008:...

“Has anybody else started saving money for a android...”
— LinkedIn: Answers: Now that...

via www.nasa.gov

That is what it feels like in Seattle these days via...

“The information economy is all about people moving bits and...”
— Ben Fry

“Poetry has died, asphyxiated by metaphors”
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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Back in Black (via jurvetson)

Lift Off- Best Viewed Large (via aussiegall)

“During the month of June 2008, certain product trials that...”
— Adobe - Trial Update: Trial...

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media:...

“The velocity of the last car before the gap in the traffic...”
— Falstaff’s Law of...

“The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always...”
— Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

IMG_7400.JPG (via Jessep242)

SIGUR RÓS : Gobbledigook (NSFW)

“In this ultra-scale arena, compute density, energy...”
— HPCwire: HP Battles IBM For...

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Pinball Wizardry (via jurvetson)

Through the window (via Neil Saunders)

via xkcd.com

Artistic Wormhole (via jurvetson)

Googlesaurus (via jurvetson)

Amazon Web Services Blog: Lots of Bits

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“Haste is a form of violence.”
— Haste is a form of violence. -...

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Jabberwock: Random signboard

“They are like bears just waiting for salmon at the end of...”
— Vinnie Mirchandai on Tech...

Via Dion Hinchliffe

“Lets keep the architecture astronauts on the back foot and...”
— James Governor

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“Having a fast cloud is nothing if you keep it closed. The...”
— Andy Kessler

insta: via graphics8.nytimes.com Science is sexy :) 

Deepak: Hadoop is an open source implementation of MapReduce. You should be able to use Hadoop with SGE AFAIK. My goal is to use EC2
Michael: Seeing the implementations of it, EC2 does look very, very cool. I'd like to try it out too, but don't think I'll get any money to that just yet
Deepak: I agree. I think we need to add on-demand models into our funding systems
Michael: Maybe in a decade, or sooner, most university departments will be using on demand computing and storage? Would be interesting to see that proposed in a grant application

“Another thing we tell founders is not to worry too much...”
— Paul Graham

“With SimpleDB alongside S3 and EC2, Amazon’s web...”
— snarfed.org

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE , BROTHER SPORTby GrrrndZero Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Animal Collective:...

“On this planet, only human beings can desire. Animals can’t....”
— India Uncut

“It’s easy to keep costs down when you don’t have...”
— VentureHacks

Testing Flickr Video

Flickr Video Embed: Testing flickr video

“You biologists are so scared of getting scooped that you sit...”
— An unknown physicist (via...

Schonfeld: Will the semantic web enable new business models?
Spivack: The semantic web does not introduce new business models but it will make current models better. The same opportunities will exist but they will be more optimized and more open and provide better value for users. On top of that it will open up the playfield for new players in each of the categories such as search and advertising.
Schonfeld: Iis there anything inherentely in the semantic web to open up standards?
Spivack: The semantic web makes your data more portable and more able to leave a service and will focus more on value creation. Open standards are the foundation of a less evil web.

“Perl was instrumental in sequencing the original human...”
— Matt Wood

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/convincing_pickup_line.png (via...

15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing

If you peel back the label and its says “Grid” or “OGSA” underneath… its not a cloud. If you need...

Nascent: Nature on the iPhone

When the wounds of your memory begin to heal I find some excuse to think of you. No sooner do...

“The benefit of the Semantic Web is that data may be re-used...”
— Sir Tim

“They do this because BLAST consumes so many cycles. Sadly,...”
— scalability.org » Blog...

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nevver: Restrain / Bollops

Instapaper + Greasemonkey

Current Theory on “Cloud Computing” (via cote)

“Driven by hubris, we become blind to our own fallibility and...”
— Elliot Spitzer in August 2007

Q: What happened to Bear Stearns?
A: It ran out of money.

Genetic Testing on NBC’s Today Show » The Genetic Genealogist

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wildflower Hold infinity in the palm of your...

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“Brendan Nyhan notes that if you use the Keith-Poole...”
— Marginal Revolution

TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)

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