- Ajaxian » Awesome Time Waster: YUI Pacman! – Kris Cieslak has re-created the arcarde hit Pacman using the YUI JavaScript library
- Newbies: 10 things you wanted to do with Ubuntu but didn’t know how! :: The Tux Geek – In this post we're going to look at 10 useful tutorials written by the How-to Geek himself.
- Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | A CSS image map tutorial – This tutorial shows just one of the ways in which Image Maps may be styled using just CSS. As long as you stick to the basic principles you can restyle this in literally hundreds of different ways.
- Bloomberg.com: Greenspan Says McCain Tax Plan Needs Corresponding Budget Cuts – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the country can't afford $3.3 trillion of tax cuts proposed by Republican presidential nominee John McCain without corresponding spending reductions.
- Talking Business – Stuck in Google’s Doghouse – NYTimes.com – That is how Microsoft acted a decade ago, and that, increasingly, is how Google is acting. Half the time, the company doesn’t even realize how egregious its behavior has become, which is why it feels so misunderstood when it is criticized
- InfoQ: Neal Gafter Discusses Closures, Language Features and Optional Typing – Neal Gafter discusses upcoming language features in Java 7, superpackages, what closures are, the differences between the three major closures proposals (CICE, FCM and BGGA), optional typing systems for dynamic languages, and the next major language.
- InfoQ: Architecture Life Span:Implications on Business and how to build more Long-lasting Architecture – Dan Pritchett introduces the concept of “architectural shelf life” that he defines as “the duration that a collection of patterns and technology are applicable when starting a new system design”. To support his arguments he provides a series of examples of technology and architecture evolution that have occurred since 1990.
- Sun Open Sources Their Hypervisor | OStatic – Sun yesterday increases the pressure on purely-commercial solutions: Sun's own xVM Server is now open source.
- KOHL CALLS ON CELL PHONE COMPANIES TO JUSTIFY RISING TEXTING RATES – US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, asked the presidents and chief executive officers of the four largest wireless telephone companies to justify sharply rising rates for its customers to send and receive text messages
- Ext JS – Google Contacts: Creating a Google Chrome App with Ext and the Google Data API – Google Chrome seems like it will be a game-changing step made by Google for the browser environment. If they kept this project secret for nearly 2 years, I wonder what else they have up their sleeves
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