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CNet and the Wall Street Journal are up with scoops on a long-awaited device from Amazon, a thing that could either be quite grand but that odds say will prove a bust: an e-book reader. It’ll come out Monday, they say, in a flashy media event in New York.

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From findinglisp.com

I spent a while last night reading about Tim Bray’s adventures with Erlang. Tim started investigating Erlang as a part of his “Wide Finder Project” in which he’s looking for programming languages that will help accelerate common tasks on the soon-to-be-very-popular CPUs with many cores but slower clock rates.

Tim works at Sun, and so this question and project makes perfect sense in light of Sun’s Niagra and T2 processors with many cores and CMT. It also makes perfect sense in light of Intel’s Tera-scale computing initiative where they have demonstrated chips with 80 cores. In short, the future is going to be very, very parallel, and we had better come to terms with that.

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Try this: http://www.haysdesign.com/bookmark_CSS.htm

Courtesey of codercorner.com.

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Also check this iste for great tips in games programming:

http://www.gamearchitect.net/

One of the hottest of hot topics these days is the topic of Internet platforms, or platforms on the Internet. Web services APIs (application programming interfaces), web services protocols like REST and SOAP, the new Facebook platform, Amazon’s web services efforts including EC2 and S3, lots of new startups talking platform (including my own company, Ning)… well, “platform” is turning into a central theme of our industry and one that a lot of people want to think about and talk about.

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This dude Andre Michelle does some pretty cool flash trickery – – –

Check the classic TR-909!

Demonstration and Performance of the new invention of Toshio Iwai, a reputed artist of Japan, the TENORI-ON:

From 4th September, Tenori-On will be on display in the UK:

http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/tenori-on-launch

Click here to see Yamaha’s web page on TERI-ON.

Is it a hoax? Seems like CGI has matured so much! Read this

When your screen is white – an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts.

Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out.

http://www.blackle.com/

In addition, check this site for Monitor Energy Information.