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New Order & the Oscars [NewOrder]

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:29:04 -0500

Funny fact of the day: New Order, despite having very few music videos for a band, have 2 videos directed by Academy Award winning directors.

The Perfect Kiss, directed by Jonathan Demme (Silence of…

Tekken bound for the iPhone

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:29:04 -0500

Tekken bound for the iPhone:

Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store

Namco is bringing the popular Tekken franchise to the iPhone. It’s not confirmed whether it’s a port of the original game — released…

The Ridgewood Board of Education (BOE) announces layoffs necessary

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:29:04 -0500

The Ridgewood Board of Education (BOE) announces layoffs necessary:

Ridgewood announces school layoffs
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
BY DOLORES ALFIERI
The Ridgewood News
STAFF WRITER

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New Order Tribute Night [NewOrder]

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:29:04 -0500

New Order Tribute Night [NewOrder]:

At the Ritz Manchester on Fri 12th March Re Order with support by Smiths tribute The Smyths, Peter Hook is hopefully coming down on the night aswell previously bigged up Re Order, doors open at 7…

Cisco's New Router Could Let Everyone In China Make A Video Call At Once (Nick Saint/Silicon Alley Insider)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:29:04 -0500

Cisco's New Router Could Let Everyone In China Make A Video Call At Once (Nick Saint/Silicon Alley Insider):

Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Cisco’s New Router Could Let Everyone In China Make A Video Call At Once — Cisco’s major news is finally out: a new large-scale…

Google Docs

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:08:21 -0500

Google Docs:

free financial templates from google.

New Jersey has the highest state and local taxes in the country All of this, and still a budget gap of $11 billion

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:44:17 -0500

New Jersey has the highest state and local taxes in the country All of this, and still a budget gap of $11 billion:

Garrett: How to deal with our fiscal mess
Sunday, March 7, 2010
BY SCOTT GARRETT
The Record

Scott Garrett represents New Jersey’s Fifth Congressional District.

NEW JERSEY is in a fiscal…

The Online Photographer: Random Excellence: Michael Paul Smith

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:52:51 -0500

The Online Photographer: Random Excellence: Michael Paul Smith:

awesome miniature photography

Image Stacking: 8400 Images - Day and Night in the City

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:52:16 -0500

Image Stacking: 8400 Images - Day and Night in the City:

Using our recent tutorial on image stacking it is possible to stack images from both day and night to create a single image of the city skyline over time. The photograph below consists of 8400…

Swag Alert!: Canon White Lens Coffee Mug

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:55:31 -0500

Swag Alert!: Canon White Lens Coffee Mug:

chaj:
That is so awesome

Josh Weisberg of Microsoft sent us this image of one of the coolest pieces of photo swag we’ve ever seen: a coffee travel mug designed like a 70-200mm Canon L-series…

Who Are the Contenders for the Federal Cloud?

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:29:24 -0500

Who Are the Contenders for the Federal Cloud?:

Which players figure to benefit if the U.S. government’s looming data center consolidation shifts large numbers of federal applications from in-house data centers to cloud computing platforms?…

5D Mark II Firmware Announcement

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:34:56 -0500

5D Mark II Firmware Announcement:

Canon adds 24 and 25fps HD Movie recording to the EOS 5D Mark II with Firmware 2.0.3

London, 2nd March 2010 – Canon today pre-announces the release of a firmware update for the multiple…

Noktor 50mm f/0.95 official today

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:34:56 -0500

Noktor 50mm f/0.95 official today:

Today Noktor made its 50mm f/0.95 lens official (previously rumored here). The first version is for m4/3 but there is a poll on the site asking which mount should be next.

Posted by PhotoRumors.com

Punked in the Data Center

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:03:15 -0500

Punked in the Data Center:

chaj:
I’ve had lunch with this guy (Kiran)

How would you react if a visitor to your data center took out a pair of scissors and cut through an Ethernet cable? Even better: How would your…

MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era?

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:56:18 -0500

MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era?:

If you look at the early days of this blog, when web scalability was still in its heady bloom of youth, many of the articles had to do with leveraging MySQL and memcached. Exciting…

Cloud Computing Expo

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:56:18 -0500

Cloud Computing Expo:

April 2010, javits

Cory Walker’s Supergirl Collection

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:40:53 -0500

Cory Walker’s Supergirl Collection:

Note: To kick things back off right, here’s a bunch of Supergirl redesigns by Cory Walker, who’s been posting these on Wednesdays over at his sketchblog, scatchblag. - Dean Trippe,…

Paper: High Performance Scalable Data Stores

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:40:53 -0500

Paper: High Performance Scalable Data Stores:

The world of scalable databases is not a simple one. They come in every race, creed, and color. Rick Cattell has brought some harmony to that world by publishing High Performance Scalable Data…

I Had Downtime Today. Here’s What I’m Doing About It.: MicroISV on a Shoestring

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:40:53 -0500

I Had Downtime Today. Here’s What I’m Doing About It.: MicroISV on a Shoestring

Free Websites Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:40:53 -0500

Free Websites Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring:

free monitoring?