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Supercomputers, Programming, and Life in Mississippi

Entries for January, 2009

Being Five

Just found this new Comic, into the RSS Reader it goes
Being Five.

Course Syllabus for a UC Berkeley “StarCraft” class

Why weren’t classes like this offered when I was in college?
This course will go in-depth in the theory of how war is conducted within the confines of the game Starcraft. There will be lecture on various aspects of the game, from the viewpoint of pure theory to the more computational aspects of how exactly battles [...]

Star Wars Dogs

I don’t have any idea what’s going on here, but I like it.
starwars.jpg (JPEG Image, 650×477 pixels).

Underworld III: Rise of the Lycans

Last night Laura & I had a date night and went to go see the new Underworld III: Rise of the Lycans. We had alot of fun, and to my surprise it’s a really good movie.
The movie is a prequel, long before the events of Underworld 1 & 2. It details the rise [...]

Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case | Threat Level from Wired.com

This is just sad.
The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants.
I had really hoped that the end [...]

YouTube – Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)

One of my favorite old cartoons.  Sexy, funny, and even with a WW2 Lockheed reference

YouTube – Swing Shift Cinderella (1945).

End of Innocence – Mac Trojan Horse in the wild

It seems that overzealous freeloaders have cause the proliferation of a fairly nasty Trojan Horse in the OSX community.  It’s currently available in the Pirated Torrents for Apple’s new iWork`09.  The only known cure: Format and Reinstall.  Two words that I never thought I’ld hear from the Mac community.
Intego has discovered a new Trojan horse, [...]

Twitter vs RSS : Which do you prefer?

Now that I’m running WordPress, I setup Dan Zarella’s awesome “TweetSuite” plugin and configured it. I turned on the Auto-Tweet of new posts, but after a day of using it I saw that I was pretty effectively spamming all my twitter friends with my blog posts. To me that seemed a bit annoying [...]

iPhone Twitter App Battlemodo: Best and Worst Twitter Apps for iPhone

GizModo has an amazing writeup on several of the iPhone’s Twitter Apps, giving pros and cons for each one. I’m a Twitterfon using, after having tried several of the others and seeing the exact same problems they describe.  Great article for iPhone+Twitter users.

The Quicklist
• Best Overall: Tweetie
• Best Paid: Tweetie
• Best Free: Twitterfon
• Most Powerful: [...]

Obama discovers Technology’s White House of Horrors

Just saw this on ValleyWag, talking about the technological hurdles that Obama’s team is discovering in the White House.
One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could [...]