Dot-com bust finally behind optical telecom market http://bit.ly/achVgQ network

Japanese salaryman performance art. Or maybe dance. Oh, I don't know what it is. http://ping.fm/3jrMV

Tilera - plans 10K cores in 8kw rack http://bit.ly/ci9Guc cloud datacenter

Checking out Plannr - reported Google acquisition http://bit.ly/9EqA7k

Looks like no history for goo.gl link shortening

I understand legacy IT in space, but why is air traffic control in the stone age with all the voice control? http://bit.ly/cRRtR4

US drones target terror plot in Pakistan to avert attack in West http://bit.ly/dmLau0

Foreclosure Wave Hits *Cash* Buyers, Too http://bit.ly/c6aabV WTF financial <-Why does anyone thing bank management is competent?

Segway Chief Dies in Segway Accident http://ping.fm/kXVkO

Spitzer: Why did the government buy AIG shares? It should have bought shares of companies who got 100 cents for $1 investment financial

Global air particulate visualization http://bit.ly/b9Fzny pollution

Today: import your oil from Middle East. Tomorrow: import your electric car from China http://ping.fm/MzsDb

James Gosling on .NET, IBM, iPads, Oracle, sale of Sun http://bit.ly/bsjIid technology <-database comment seems off

Dura Europos - historical monument in Syria http://bit.ly/DuraEuropos

China middle class woes - Salary is 10 times what it was 10 years ago. Why am I tense?http://bit.ly/bisced

Influence of special interests in China - Evan Osnos http://ping.fm/zEzML

Laos - new airport and train station planned for Luang Prabang http://bit.ly/9jpueS travel

Paris - interactive map for transport in Ile-de-France (greater Paris) http://bit.ly/aYTBjA France travel

Any studies showing minimum requirements/feasibility for load balancing across sites for OLTP? datacenter

Optimize datacenter: power supplies, UPS, load balancing across sites, compute with less watts, decrease water http://bit.ly/9xrZPG

Cambodia discussing new Siem Reap (Angkor area) airport 60km away http://bit.ly/cjowsw travel

Rail link feasibility from Kunming China thru Laos & Thailand to Malaysia http://bit.ly/bLCRy9 travel

Bacon. Food. Truck. bit.ly/9GyB6F

Achieving better fixed income yields while limiting risk http://ping.fm/4qIBk financial

SIM cards & Mobile Internet in Central Asia & Iran http://bit.ly/a9ryEb travel

Insights into the performance of Microsoft big clusters http://bit.ly/9u4iUz scalability

Iran - exerting global political influence through internet connectivity (continued) http://bit.ly/d2EHdt

Murakami site specific art at Versailles thru 12 Dec 10 http://bit.ly/8XrA9Q France

Beefier cores better than wimpy cores? datacenter servers http://bit.ly/dC4jkh

Google - recycled water for datacenter use. Where, besides LA, has recycled water in US? http://bit.ly/b8jyx6

Financial - stronger capital requirements needed for banks for countercyclical buffer http://bit.ly/9vMYe2

NetApp 42kw/rack data center http://bit.ly/cpxfKM is limited to 12kw/rack average datacenter http://bit.ly/dBoCiB

Antimov - Violate the 3rd Law of Robotics! Win cash! http://bit.ly/9lr7qu

patent - quick analysis for infringement http://bit.ly/ckd6LR

Grockit - Social network for K-12 learning http://bit.ly/bvvnUD education

Airline flights over US with path, 20 minute lag, on Google Earth http://bit.ly/bhM0xC travel

Railway Atlas of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia http://bit.ly/aqI4wX travel

McChrystal, except in 1880, same war theater, same demeanor http://bit.ly/axI5Bk military Afghanistan

Google dumps batch oriented MapReduce for Instant in favor of trigger (!) like database functions http://bit.ly/d4I1Vb scalability

Peung Tbal petroglyphs, near Anlong Thom, Kulen http://bit.ly/acKS2r Cambodia travel

RT @renesys: [#Iran - internet transit provider for Iraq & Afghanistan. Diplomacy tool?] http://bit.ly/bmKI5A

Big Ball of Mud, still the most popular software [non] design http://bit.ly/98SenN programming

Haystack - US technology project to help Iranians evade internet censorship collapses http://bit.ly/c4WJf8 Iran

SDSC - supercomputer site for I/O bound niche datacenter hpc http://bit.ly/cVgbKw

Cheaper car loans through competitive lender bidding http://ping.fm/fqxRD financial

Where people in your zip code commute to & from http://bit.ly/cSRtpJ visualization traffic

Prettymaps - high density map visualization mashup http://bit.ly/a5eTl9

Formatted information/report organizer for any environment, intended for stressed & sleep deprived military http://bit.ly/c1wz4R

Google Instant - capacity mitigation: user state is now kept to track results already shown datacenter http://bit.ly/ayYWex

IPv6: Whose Responsibility Is It? http://bit.ly/bYmtzr network

Personal Financial Tuneup http://ping.fm/5Jwzi

ContourGPS helmet mounted video camera has GPS with embedded map
http://ping.fm/ikwj3

India to renovate Wat Phu in Laos http://bit.ly/d5fIur Map: http://ping.fm/sEfV7 travel

Aranyaprathet Thailand - border town with Cambodia - Vietnam influences - restaurants http://bit.ly/bBGu3J travel

Relative number of Android active devices by version - v2.2 = 29% 1 Sep 10 http://bit.ly/b68JyB

Are Android phones in the US destined to be filled with carrier crapware? Oh, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! http://ping.fm/8qZXK

Would a Verizon iPhone be loaded with crapware? http://ping.fm/Mi3bo Ack!

Samrong Circular Earthwork prehistoric archaeological site destroyed for housing in Cambodia http://bit.ly/drAF5O (forgot link)

What happens when your web site is hosted at a cloud provider who hosts a site that goes viral? http://bit.ly/9oEgw8

Canada and Trans Pacific cable maps http://bit.ly/avr8YX network

Style guides and user interface (UI) guidelines http://bit.ly/9Ppcm0 design

Samrong Circular Earthwork prehistoric archaeological site destroyed for housing in Cambodia

Ta Prohm’s trees to remain a permanent fixture http://bit.ly/cRGQJM cambodia angkor travel

iPhone configuration utility updated; useful for small biz; restrict Game Center http://bit.ly/bRBqDr

NSF: Re-architecting the internet http://bit.ly/bs7HCF network

Quit screwing around and appoint Elizabeth Warren head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. financial http://bit.ly/c1YRd6

Robust paths in the Internet http://bit.ly/98XLum network architecture

Tracking firefly trails in the forest http://bit.ly/d8z3ZB cool photography

iPhone 4 with iOS 4.1 field test mode http://ping.fm/HGkF7

Scalability Patterns http://bit.ly/aSHT37 programming architecture

Laos to open Battle of Ban Dong (Lamson 719, 1971) museum http://bit.ly/aebqUD

Stir-fried morning glory with bean paste, garlic & chili - Riya's Kitchen http://bit.ly/cL4bQe Thailand recipe

Google Scribe - autocomplete for any web page, example: email, with toggle http://bit.ly/aWYNds

Role of Steve Jobs as a designer disputed, but interesting comments and, in the end, it doesn't matter http://bit.ly/catzFR

iPhone - add on 45x microscope for US$10 http://ping.fm/jQJ2P

Terminate SSL connections in hardware; Reduce server count http://bit.ly/chQWOL scalability

Public SEC form D disclosures of stealth mode companies http://ping.fm/zYRDq financial

Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning to Scale the Hard Way http://bit.ly/agKsNK scalability

eBay modular datacenter RFP http://bit.ly/9o1HBU

Understanding & managing business risk in China http://bit.ly/ciGnod

Mapping building interiors in 3D http://bit.ly/cbKIfH

FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes http://bit.ly/bTa0oK datacenter

Why wouldn’t IT departments build from commodity components instead of being locked into [a vendor system]? http://bit.ly/d7IQZ2 datacenter

Folding UK BS1363 AC power plug to be launched 2010 http://bit.ly/921EuL mobile

Track friend and foe on the tactical battlefield with iPhone app. (wifi needed) military http://bit.ly/b00Dce

Low cost unmanned aerial surveillance http://bit.ly/d1AtNi military EverybodyHasDrones

Poll: 21% of Americans think the lottery is the most practical way to accumulate enough money for retirement http://bit.ly/9iZA86 financial

Why ACID compliant relational databases are hard to scale http://bit.ly/aJprVV

"A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop" - review of movie remake by Zhang Yimou of Coen brothers' Blood Simple http://ping.fm/NRns5

10,000 Chinese troops in Pakistan? Denied by China http://ping.fm/8THtr

Economic concerns driving push for military naval power, including China http://bit.ly/btYFtY

Longer term CDs as an alternative to bonds financial http://ping.fm/R9DFE

Google Chrome says whether site access failures are affecting others http://ping.fm/h0rGp