Kickstarter: A Crowd-Sourced Dragon's Den

Kickstarter is a service that allows you to raise money for projects easily: write up a proposal, come up with a set of bonuses that your funders get (You've watched PBS, you know the drill: "For \\(50, you get a lifetime license and a tote bag! For \\)100, you get …

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Goldilocks: A race-aware Java runtime - Microsoft Research

Goldilocks: A race-aware Java runtime - Microsoft Research.

This one's been in my backlog to post about for awhile. Not only is it interesting as a concept, I find it also interesting that it's a Java runtime and not based on the CLR. Technical reason or just researcher interest?

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Surfing "Jaws" At Night

The Eddie did not go, but the winter storms that have kept the waves big all January gave someone an opportunity to do something truly nutsy -- surfing Maui's "Jaws" break in the middle of the night.

Sure, it was a stunt and, for surfing, stinks of dissipation and decadence, but …

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Sho -- A "Playground for Data" Written in IronPython

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.

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90-second version of A Wrinkle in Time

"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 …

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808 Computers

Big Island Nerds...

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