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Automate Your Home With Open-Source Software
via Wired Top Stories by How-To Wiki on May 28, 2008
Forget to turn the lights off? Want to warm up the hot tub while you're still on the slopes? Use free software and inexpensive wiring components to control your home appliances from afar. In Wired's How-To Wiki.
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Natural Programmers (Code Monkeys) vs. Career Programmers (Geeks in Suits)
via DZone: latest front page by jammag on May 28, 2008
To hire the most appropriate talent for your software development job, you must first understand the ethic of the Code Monkey. (Hint: it's best to avoid geeks in suits...)
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Programming As a Part of a Science Education?
via Slashdot by Soulskill on May 28, 2008
An anonymous reader writes "I'm a fairly new physics professor at a well-ranked undergraduate university. When I arrived, I was surprised to discover there were no computer programming requirements for our majors. This has led to a series of fairly animated faculty curriculum conversations, driven by the question: to what extent should computer programming be a part of an undergraduate...
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Eddie Murphy to return as "Beverly Hills Cop" - Reuters
via Google News by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
... comeback after almost 20 years, why not the Beverly Hills Cop? Paramount Pictures has given the go-ahead for a fourth installment of its "Beverly Hills Cop" franchise, with Eddie Murphy on ...Eddie Murphy to star in ‘Beverly Hills Cop IV’MSNBCEddie Murphy Signs on for Beverly Hills Cop 4ReelzChannel.comMy Fox Colorado.com - ComingSoon.net - TheCelebrityCafe.com - UGOall 90 news articles
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Computer model knows what you're thinking
via News at Nature - Articles published Today by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
Researchers can predict which noun a person is visualizing.
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Why we should love logarithms
via News at Nature - Articles published Today by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
The tendency of 'uneducated' people to compress the number scale for big numbers is actually an admirable way of measuring the world, says Philip Ball.
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Wasps Reveal Clues about the Evolution of Intelligence [Scientific American Mind]
via Scientific American by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
Experts have long suspected that complex social interaction drove the evolution of large brains in humans. Now a study in wasps supports and refines that theory: it seems that dominant individuals have larger brain regions responsible for higher-order cognitive processes.Biologists at the University of Washington observed the behavior of paper wasps (Mischocyttarus mastigorphorus) in the Costa...
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The Google Collections Library
via DZone: latest front page by Thierry.Lefort on May 28, 2008
The Google collections library has the potential to both increase your productivity and significantly clean up your code. Take a look at what it can do for you!
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WfXML-R: REST based process integration
via InfoQ Personalized Feed for Camilo Pino by Gavin Terrill on May 28, 2008
WfXML-R is a lightweight approach to BPM that utilizes several Web 2.0 standards and protocols including Atom/AtomPub, GData, OpenSearch and OpenID/OAuth. By Gavin Terrill
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VIA Introduces the Nano Processor
via Slashdot by timothy on May 28, 2008
Vigile writes "While the VIA Isaiah architecture had been previously discussed, the new x86 processor is officially being released as the VIA Nano. The Nano marks VIA's first 64-bit, superscalar, speculative out-of-order CPU design and is being built on Fujitsu's 65nm process technology. While direct performance comparisons are still missing, the products being released could bring...
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