The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time : Rolling Stone

The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time : Rolling Stone: "This is what makes a great rock & roll guitar sound: an irresistible riff; a solo or jam that takes you higher every time you hear it; the final power chord that pins you to the wall and makes you hit 'play' again and again. Every song here has those thrills. But these are rock's greatest guitar moments because of what's inside the notes: hunger, fury, despair and joy, often all at once. You hear the blues, gospel and rockabilly that came before, transormed by the need to say something new and loud, right away. Rock & roll has been the sound of independence for half a century. The guitar is still its essential, liberating voice. These are the 100 reasons why."

Very clever animation

About a minute long, very clever, and clean.

Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART: "An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself.
A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find - the brush tool, the eraser tool - to get back at his tormentor. It's resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself.

-- This took three long months.. i think it's worth it."

Nanosoccer at 2008 US RoboCup Open promises to be a real riot for the microscopic set - Engadget

Nanosoccer at 2008 US RoboCup Open promises to be a real riot for the microscopic set - Engadget: "Nanosoccer at 2008 US RoboCup Open promises to be a real riot for the microscopic set"

Sara Tucholsky, Her First Home Run

This is a great story. The screen gets a little cloudy and out of focus at the end.

Sara Tucholsky, Her First Home Run: "Sara Tucholsky, Her First Home Run"

What is governance? (sharepoint world)

What is governance?

Implementing and governing information architecture

Implementing and governing information architecture

IT Governance

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : New governance content for SharePoint published on TechNet: "Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that you establish in your enterprise to guide, direct, and control how it uses technologies to accomplish business goals."

Battleship Mtron: the absurdly fast SSD RAID array - Engadget

Battleship Mtron: the absurdly fast SSD RAID array - Engadget: "Listen, we know you think your RAID setup is pretty snazzy, and, truth be told, it probably makes our rig look silly by comparison. However, in the computer world, there's always someone out there with a bigger, nastier system -- and we've just spotted one of the nastiest of them all. Next Level Hardware is a site that specializes in putting outrageous setups to the test, and this time they haven't disappointed with their benchmarks on the Mtron 16GB SSD (reportedly the fastest SATA drive in the world). Oh, did we mention the test was on a RAID 0 array of nine drives? Dubbed the 'Battleship Mtron,' the sickening collection of hardware blazed past the competition (a WD Raptor, less stacked Mtron RAID setups), delivering mind-boggling data swaps like copying a 1GB folder in four seconds. You read that right: four seconds. Like where this is headed? Truck over to the test page and peep all the stats... seriously, it's upsetting."

HttpWatch: An HTTP Viewer and HTTP Sniffer for IE 6 & 7

HttpWatch: An HTTP Viewer and HTTP Sniffer for IE 6 & 7: "HttpWatch is an HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates with Internet Explorer to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving the browser window."

YouTube - 2008 First Robotics Competition(FRC) Game Animation

YouTube - 2008 First Robotics Competition(FRC) Game Animation

Motorcycle: Radio

This is the two way radio we bought in order to talk to each other while riding bikes. Requires an FCC license.

Amazon.com: Midland GXT710VP3 22-Channel 26-Mile GMRS 2-Way Radio (Pair): Electronics

Motorcycle: Radio: Closed Helmut Headset

This is the headset we use for our two-way radios that we bought in order to be able to talk to each other while riding.

Amazon.com: Midland AVPH2 Closed Face Helment Headset for Midland GMRS: Electronics

Teen is running out of innings, but the game still isn't over

A very moving story about a kid with cancer...

Teen is running out of innings, but the game still isn't over: "Teen is running out of innings, but the game still isn't over"

Would a Salary Cap Improve Baseball? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Would a Salary Cap Improve Baseball? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog: "A number of you suggested instituting salary caps. This chart comparing team performance with total player salaries over the 2008 season, by data visualization guru Ben Fry, does seem to suggest a link between higher pay and sluggish performance. But does it?Check out Fry’s charts for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 seasons as well."

How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog: Eggleston and his daughter two minutes before it began to hail. Says Eggleston, “Hail was not in the forecast.”A gentleman named J.D. Eggleston recently wrote to us with a rather interesting report, a nice piece of D.I.Y. Freakonomics concerning the accuracy of local T.V. weather forecasts. I thought it was interesting enough to post in its entirety here on the blog, and I hope you agree."

new grill discussion

Instapundit.com -: "GRILLBLOGGING: Okay, I'm finally getting to following up on Kaliph's question about gas grills. The response was so overwhelming that I still haven't read it all, but here goes."

LeaveMeAloneBox Video

The only this this device does is turn itself off using the same physical switch a human used to turn it on.

LeaveMeAloneBox Video: "Here's a short Video of the Ultimate Machine doing its thing. Notice that once the box top is open, if you continue to flip the switch, the hand follows to flip the switch off."

Kai-Fu Lee on Cloud Computing

The numbers below can be looked at 3 says:
-- (5 years ago) Crazy Talk!
-- (now) That's pretty cool!
-- (5 years from now) Yeah so? My Pc does that.


Kai-Fu Lee on Cloud Computing: "6. Programmable. 'For fault tolerance, Google uses GFS or distributed disk storage. Every piece of data is replicated three times. If one machine dies, a master redistributes the data to a new server. There are around 200 clusters (some with over 5 PB of disk space on 500 machines). The Big Table is used for distributed memory. The largest cells in the Big Table are 700 TB, spread over 2000 machines. MapReduce is the solution for new programming paradigms. It cuts a trillion records into a thousand parts on a thousand machines. Each machine will then load a billion records and will run the same program over these records, and then the results are recombined. While in 2005, there were some 72,000 jobs being run on MapReduce, in 2007, there were two million jobs (use seems to be increasing exponentially).'"

24 Hours on the 'Big Stick'

24 Hours on the 'Big Stick': "Carrier launches are astonishing events. The plane is moved to within what seems like a bowling alley's length of the bow. A blast shield larger than any government building driveway Khomeini-flipper rises behind the fighter jet, and the jet's twin engines are cranked to maximum thrust. A slot-car slot runs down the middle of the bowling alley. The powered-up jet is held at the end of its slot by a steel shear pin smaller than a V-8 can. When the shear pin shears the jet is unleashed and so is a steam catapult that hurls the plane down the slot, from 0 to 130 miles per hour in two seconds. And--if all goes well--the airplane is airborne. This is not a pilot taking off. This is a pilot as cat's eye marble pinched between boundless thumb and infinite forefinger of Heaven's own Wham-O slingshot."

FIRST Robotics Video - New York Regional Competition - Hand-Built Robots - Popular Mechanics

FIRST Robotics Video - New York Regional Competition - Hand-Built Robots - Popular Mechanics