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For your Christmas day geek pleasure, a University of Washington video lecture by Urs Hölzle describing the Google Linux Cluster. Some amazing numbers.
The Graphing Calculator is a cool piece of software that shipped with the first PowerPC computer from Apple. "Just type an equation and it is drawn for you without complicated dialogs or commands." The story of it's creation is not so simple though.
I gave a twenty-minute demonstration, eliciting "oohs" and "ahhs." Afterward, they asked, "Who do you report to? What group are you in? Why haven't we seen this earlier?" I explained that I had been sneaking into the building and that the project didn't exist. They laughed, until they realized I was serious. Then they told me, "Don't repeat this story."
Samsung is kicking ass. The soon to be released i730 mobile has everything: huge QVGA display, slide out QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and it works on the EV-DO high speed cellular network. This is what the Treo could have been. But it runs Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition. Still, I might have to surrender. Somebody stop me.