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Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
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Let’s all assume less this year!

Let’s all exaggerate a little this year!

Let’s all be a little commercial this year!.

Let’s all do as we have been impregnated.

BE HAPPY IN 2009 ! ! !

(soruce: MetaFilter, thanks John)
Here is also a clear, do it yourself instruction video.

(srouce: Make: and 2uptech)

One of the above pictures is a live shot from Pointlogic USA office, the other is from Google Earth, kudos to Peter E.

A new working model of the mysterious 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Device, has been unveiled [...] details and precision of the new model are based on the breakthrough research by The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, a joint effort by researchers from Greece and the United Kingdom. They were able to plumb the depths of the device, comprised of 81 separate pieces (including several fused together over time), and decipher many more of the inscriptions by using high-tech hardware and software from HP Laboratories and X-Tek Systems. See also decodingtheheavens.com.

(source: NetworkWorld)

Larry Wall

“We use natural language — most people think COBOL — and that’s not how we think about it. Rather, the principles of natural language are that everything is context sensitive and there is more than one way to say it. You are free to learn it as you go.“

“We don’t expect a five-year-old to speak with the same diction as a 50 year-old. The language is built to evolve over time by the participation of the whole community. Natural languages use inflection and pauses and tone to carry meanings. These carry over to punctuation in written language, so we’re not afraid to use punctuation either.“

“Do you have a release date for this yet? [...] Sure, It’s Christmas Day — we just don’t say which one. [...] We’re certainly well into the second 80 percent.“

(From an interview with Larry Wall.)

Perl programmers have long ensured their own job security by writing code that the machines themselves have trouble understanding, and Perl 6 seems will bring this tradition to the next level.
(source: The Reg)

Die Senz is echt heel bijzonder. De marketing van dit dure ding is wel eens waar erg hyperig, maar de techniek die er achter zit werkt echt.
Als je um uitpakt voel je aan alles dat het geen gewone paraplu is. Kijk maar eens naar dit filmpje. Wouw!

Kortom, een perfect ding, dat perfect gemarked (is dat Nederlands?) wordt. Echt iets dat past bij Pointlogic. Er zijn ook veel parallellen, hoog technologisch en veel plezier bij de product-tests. Ik bedoel als je deze jongen bezig ziet met het testen van zijn eigen product, dan is het toch net of je Robert ziet die naar zijn eigen code kijkt?

Most websites are crammed with small text that’s a pain to read. Why? There is no reason for squeezing so much information onto the screen. It’s just a stupid collective mistake that dates back to a time when screens were really, really small.

(By all means, RTFA)