Sho looks interesting, a .NET set of libraries, utilities, and an interactive console for rapid prototyping, data analysis, and visualization.

I am not sure how or if this interacts with Pivot, another Microsoft tool that seems to cover the same ground.

"A Wrinkle In Time" In 90 Seconds from James Kennedy on Vimeo.

This is awesome: award-winning children's books retold as 90 second films. Although my nieces and nephews are probably too old for this, I checked the list of Newbery winners and was amazed by how few I'd even heard …

Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel - NYTimes.com.

If we must have war, by all means let it be wormy.

Big Island Nerds...

I don’t know what to make of the furor that your astrological sign does not accord with the facts.

Being a writing-implement fanboy, I had to try out the new Sharpie Liquid Pencils, which are erasable for a few days and then become permanent. I’m not going to explain it much further, because they stink.

The form-factor is very much like a cheap uniball pen, except that you …

Mauna Kea Geminids

This is a movie of last night's sky from Mauna Kea and is well worth downloading. If you're wondering "Why is the sky blue but I can see the stars?" that's because for the first half of the night, the moon was up! At around midnight, it …

I was looking at Poliahu's white cloak covering the peak of Mauna Kea, and then I put my face in the water and looked down at the coral reef 40' below me and what should I see swimming below me but a manta ray with a 12'+ wingspan?

• Imagine that you have a hierarchical object graph:

hierarchy

And you want to merge two instances. Some elements should combine elements from both, some must take their value from the master. My example scenario is artificial, so please don't say 'well, if all you have to do is number pages …