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WWII poster (source: treehugger) I plan on expanding my vegetable garden this year. Last year I had some success with okra, green peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, as well as basil and rosemary. There’s nothing like growing your own food. I highly recommend it.
"the stone age didn’t end for a lack of stones"
"We’ve already fallen behind in areas like alternative energy, better batteries, and nanotechnology. Instead of racing to catch up, we’re buying seeds and garden gnomes on Facebook. This won’t end well."
— Newsweek: The Sad Truth About Facebook - Friends Without Benefits
Announcing the iMicrowave
What would a Microwave look like if it was built by Apple?
Much like how it revolutionized the music-player, Apple has just revolutionized the Microwave. The iMicrowave was announced in a press conference earlier today.
We got rid of all those buttons, and gave you a seamless and intuitive interface. You’re gonna love it.
-Steve Jobs
Much like the iPod and iPhone, the iMicrowave has replaced the buttons we’ve come to expect on a microwave with a touch interface.
The standard interface will consist of a virtual click wheel for setting the time:
Here’s a standard Microwave for comparison (note the VCR-like interface):
No word yet on whether it runs the iOS running on iPods, iPhones, and the iPad.
Bazinga!
Michael Stonebraker’s name probably doesn’t jump very high in many minds outside computer science, yet it was Stonebraker’s quick thinking 40 years ago that paved the way for the industry these better-knowns call home.
MapReduce, Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc. Stonebraker responds with VoltDB and now SciDB keeping ACID and improving speed.
“In the 1980s, the ‘answer’ was if all you wanted to do was business data processing, then it was relational databases. Try to stretch SQL to do everything, though, and that’s an unnatural act.”
Being Moderate sucks
No one pays attention. It’s not interesting. It’s much more interesting to compare people to Hitler (or threaten to burn holy books), than to have an actual nuanced, complex position on things. Nuanced is boring. Extremist is exciting. In this case maybe boring is the better option.
