Screaming Penguin

I am writing to you with a sense of dismay right now. We certainly all understand the fiscal problems that face our nation at this point in time, but recent actions by the House Appropriations Committee are deeply troubling. Specifically, zeroing out the budget for the James Webb Space Telescope.

So a number of places are reporting that HP is looking to license WebOS. Don't do it! Seriously, I think HP is way underestimated right now and their PC dominance could be a thing, but they don't need to get into licensing their OS. What they need to be doing is starting to drive specs. Get HP Touchstone on iOS and Android. Negotiate the come to jesus meeting on installable HTML5 apps with Mozilla, Google, RIM and Microsoft.

So I guess the buzz, pun intended, is about Google+. GOOG's boil the ocean, pun intended, social product code named Emerald Sea. Steven Levy has a huge write up at Wired about the product. He is a good story teller, but I think he misses the point. He misses a lot of stuff. He talks about the failure of Wave and Buzz to set the world on fire, but he misses WHY exactly. On Wave he says:

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Just because Chuck hasn't posted it yet. WTG MOVL.

... but NPR wants a list of 100 greatest Sci-Fi/Fantasy books. Fantasy sucks. In general decending order: 0. 1984 - Orwell (Really, this should be before #1) 1. Brave New World - Huxley 2. The Time Machine - Wells 3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Verne 4. Frankenstein - Shelly 5. Dune - Herbert 6. Neuormancer - Gibson 7. The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood 8. Foundation and Empire - Asimov 9. Rendezvous with Rama - Clarke 10. The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury

This via mesh:

Recently saw this come up on Reddit. Dear Game People: STOP FUCKING THINKING LIKE IT IS 1987. While the rest of the world is finally moving to Scene Graphs for plain-old-apps, you people are writing code like it is 1987. I understand it is easy to think this way, but it is time to face up to the new world of multi-processor CPUs and dealing with concurrent state.