more ...A USC roboticist has built a robot for "printing" houses that can extrude cement or adobe and shape it using trowel-manipulators to a CAD-represented spec....The key to the technology is a computer-guided nozzle that deposits a line of wet concrete, like toothpaste being squeezed onto a table.... via [Boing …
Edward Tufte is one of the leading thinkers in how to visually present information. His latest stuff, on Sparklines, is showing up on lots of the feeds I'm reading tonight. via [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
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p dir=ltr> A "sparkline" is a very compact graph that you inline with …
more ...Over on Richard Caetano's blog I see the Flight Simulator team has an SDK coming out. via [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
I'm not going to do it, but I bet you could make a cool add-on.
more ...In a response to a NYT column on outsourcing, Jim Fawcette says " Unemployment in programming is 40 percent above the national average, despite the fact that the number of people in that profession has declined rapidly for four years, and salaries are down 15 percent." Nasty numbers, if true (and …
more ...more ...James Robertson thinks that Java is an interruption in the forward progress of software development....It is nice to see people returning to serious language research again. Efforts like the Feyerabend Project and more practically focused offshoots like OOPSLA’s Onward! track and the Post-Java Workshops (as well as increasing …
JOEL JOHNSON -- The government has purchased a completely solid-state 2.5TB (terabyte) drive array from Texas Memory Systems...
In related news, President Bush received a digital camera for his birthday.
more ...more ...I know that I'm no longer untainted because I work in the big house, but I just don't get this. Do developers really want to build the same thing over and over, project to project, app to app or do they want to spend their time building cool, new stuff …
Sometimes I forget that the world is also a place of delightful whimsy. (Via Ben Hyde) via [Exploration Through Example]
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p dir="ltr"> Words can't express my delight. I used to count the smoots every day as I rode the Harvard Bridge to get to Community Boating.
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