Nuclear decay may not be as steady as once thought. §

Android now lets you run native code. §

Note to self; do not attend Iraqi celebrations. Bomb magnet. §

Greatest banner ad ever made. Click through to the end. §

“the semantic web, which is the next incarnation of the internet” horrendous journalism by Silicon Ireland. No ways the DERI lads told them that. §

A lot of parenting language needs to change. Shops call it “Mums and babes” parking for instance. §

Prediction; Pieces like this on vast data centers will be quaint in 5 to 7 years time. Not quaint because data centers will be bigger but because vast data centers will die on the vine. Applications and the resources they need will spread to the edges of the web. We centralise because of latency (and efficiency) but we will find ways around this issue. Data-centers are not like human-centers (cities) where clustering brings about unexpected boon (Sergey bumping into Larry and founding Google.) §

“MJ’s death brought down the Internet” posted, wait for it, on the web which runs on the internet. Neither of which has collapsed. §

You see why I asked how much of a journalists day is spent using Google for research. §

Pew data on the shift from print to online classifieds. Nasty for newspapers. §