Blogs and RSS

By now, most of you have figured out I really am addicted to reading news feeds for stuff I find interesting. Last year, this was cutting edge stuff. As of today, there are may ways to read news feeds in a consolidated manner, and probably more efficiently than a newspaper. Someone had once shown me [...]

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Advanced TCA

Usually hardware is not seen as cutting edge, but more and more it’s getting a second wind and there are signs of creativity.
From Wikipedia:
“Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture is the largest specification effort in the history of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), with more than 100 companies participating. Known as AdvancedTCA™, the official specification [...]

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Humanitarian Joos

Global Perspective
Let’s take just a little time to think globally with two views. The first I call “Pwned by Sodertalje”. Here is a quote and the article: “Mr. Lago is the mayor of this scenic Swedish town of 60,000 people [Sodertalje], which last year took in twice as many Iraqi refugees as the entire United [...]

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Some Game Joos

John Carmak was at the Apple conference. WHooooolllllyyy crrrrrr***p.
If you need to, search on “iD Games”, and/or one Mister “John Carmak”, king off all that is gaming engine design. Much too much to put into this little message. Anyway… Turns out the new iD engine will run on almost anything – and get this – [...]

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Cinema Joos – Webstyle.

http://angryalien.com/ Bunny reenactments in 30 seconds.
http://muffinfilms.com/ Yeah. Animated muffins.

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The Multimachine

Open sourced machines. To me this seems to be a great intersection between the open sourced community and mechanical engineers who always wanted to get in the game; the push to embitter developing countries with sustainable and cheap technology through good design; and DIY fanatics who love their MacGyversisms. I like to think of this [...]

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