NOT Dexter's Lab

NASA just released a 35 minutes tour of the International Space Station. Feel free to check it out following those links:

YouTube Part I

YouTube Part II

YouTube Part III

YouTube Part IV

Simply… amazing.

The first release candidate version of world’s most famous open source web browser, Firefox 3, is officially available for download. It looks like those irritating memory leaks are finally fixed. For a comprehensive look at what’s new in this version, check  this page. You can download Firefox 3 RC1 by following this link

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Looks like my nightmares already knew about this stuff…

“The Register reports that the (perhaps inevitable) robot rebellion has been avoided … for now. ‘Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.’ Gizmodo also has a good photo.”

My question is: where’s Sarah Connor? (I’m not really in the mood of an techno-ethical debate right now, but this may be a good start)

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Here’s the extract from an interesting article written by Aaron Rowe that captured my attention few days back:

For many students, earning a degree in engineering is less than enjoyable and far from what they expected. Here are our biggest complaints about the educational rite of passage. Of course, they are sweeping generalizations. Feel free to disagree. 5 Awful Textbooks [...], 4 Professors are Rarely Encouraging [...], 3 Dearth of Quality Counseling [...], 2 Other Disciplines Have Inflated Grades [...], 1 Every Assignment Feels the Same [...].

Do you think he is just a frustrated engineering student?

(continue reading…)

Ok, Mr. Jim Sterling finally gave me a little hint to explain the echoes in my head. It looks like that somewhere around Taiwan, someone wanted to waste some money to understand the connection between playing videogames and xxx (not porn, but simply put a human disease or problem here). They discovered and amazing truth: our long lasting videogame sessions kill the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex because the more you play, the less your lazy blood flows there.

HOLY CRAP. I just got Bioshock Collector’s Edition for my 360. Are the whispers in my head going to get louder?

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Digging through my bookmarks (am I the only one on this planet who reorganizes them often?), I found a speech on free culture by Lawrence Lessing (2001) which was sent me by a dear friend of mine (yes, *** (<– stands for Robert), I read your offline messages). It’s enlightening to see how free culture worked as an input for new, original, ideas/works. So, huh, what about now? How did we ever come so far? And why? War against p2p, censorship and twisted laws. Let’s just meditate a little bit..

Lawrence Lessing <free culture>

Let’s start this website with a nice test: polyglot. Woho. “Test”. Such a nice word… you know, almost every dev in the world love that word.