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I would have liked to have this. The original source of 2600 Hz found in a cereal box. (And the cereal is pretty good, too.)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110255449502
Thanks to Donn Lee for pointing it out.

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Joe sent me yet another good link, to an article on GigaOm: Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation. It pretty much describes the way I work.
I recall when I was 16, my first IT job… I went to work because I wanted to play with routers and servers but I just couldn’t afford to buy [...]

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An article by John Markoff describes a project by Sun to create a silicon-based optical interconnect between processor cores (and maybe memory etc). This project should prove interesting and generate advances in computer engineering even if it fails to reach its goal. I look forward to hearing more details as this evolves.
Further, I’m glad to [...]

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Joel on Software has a brilliant article on why web standards are doomed.
To quote one of my favorite parts:
A few years pass; you’re still selling Qxyzrhjjjjukltks like crazy; but now there are lots of Qxyzrhjjjjukltk clones on the market, like the open source FireQx, and lots of headphones, and you all keep inventing new features [...]

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A funny post on the Greenpeace blog, about their presentation at the recent CeBIT show. They reference an article in The Register talking about the show. To summarize the article in one quote, “a refreshingly frank IBM spokesman said energy consumption had been driven up the agenda because power costs had been driven up the [...]

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