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?

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 …

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 …