Some interesting ideas about social organization (video, 16:36, TED style)

Jon Siracusa writes in ArsTechnica: In Snow Leopard, Apple has introduced a C language extension called "blocks." Blocks add closures and anonymous functions to C and the C-derived languages C++, Objective-C, and Objective C++.

Keith Olbermann on Faux News' incitement (9:03)

http://bbot.org/abridged-startrek.html, a snarky summary of the most recent star trek movie. I chuckled and was amused.

an absurdist look at C++0x at theregister.co.uk (thanks chamois)
A handful of TED talks:
An apparently workable to change over to electric cars (18:06) Millions of dollars apparently on the way to applying this in a few places around the world.
Al Gore's latest slides (early 2009) on climate change and ice melt (7:44)
Statistical analysis of skirmishes in ( Read more... )

I run a little community web comic site, I wanted to share with you something that made me chuckle about current events

Google AppEngine for Java

Criminally bad voting machine user interface, and the criminal exploit thereof (thanks coslinks)

Red Meat comic riffing on Watchmen? from 1996. This is like something that was in the book but not in the movie.

They say only god can make a tree, but this guy can make a rainforest in deforested Borneo (ted talk, 21 minutes)