Monday, Feb 19, 2007
Ars Technica has a nice price comparison of HDMI cables that all produce the same image quality but have wildly different prices.
The Inquirer discusses the latest release of AnyDVD, whick will remove DRM from standard and HD-DVDs. Huzzah for fair use!
Just what the title says, a very thourough comparison of several Ruby implementations. Looks like the next major release (1.9) will be much faster. This is great news for Rails sites.
Really not surprising, but the world’s largest tropical ice mass, in Peru, is shrinking by 60 meters per year. Sell your oceanfront property…
This is a pleasant surprise to me. I hope OpenID becomes a standard — I hate creating new accounts at every website I join.
Hint: it’s all about the stink…
Bob’s theory is that Apple will use them for p2p-enabled pre-seeding of downloads so that people can get HD iTunes content lickety-split. An interesting idea, but it would require a big installed base.
A math student figured out how to do this seemingly impossible task.
A nice article from Damn Interesting on the tragic tale of Howard Bull, an artillery engineer obsessed with building a gun that could shoot satellites into orbit.
An interesting look at brain diseases that affect people in surprising ways.
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