The weblog world can become very insular. I have the sites I visit regularly, many of which also refer to one another. As a way of opening my mind to other voices and keeping my blogroll fresh, I visit my Radio Community Server updates page every time I post. I make a point of visiting every page that's updated within a minute or two of my own.

It's generally a pretty random selection. This time, visiting [jb] jim brayton I was enticed to visit this particularly lovely parody of the new Apple "switch" commercials. My belly laugh for the day ~ thanks for the pointer, Jim!

So check out your neighbors, and enlarge your circle beyond the usual suspects.

5:45:15 PM    please comment []

*Get your mind out of the gutter!*

Bigger is definitely hotter, but not necessarily better. Sometimes small and nimble and cheap is good.

Q and Green Destiny are the respective champions in the debate.

The bottleneck in parallel processing is communication speed, getting information from one part of the machine to another in a timely fashion. Do it with proximity and you get heat and huge energy consumption to keep things from melting down. Do it with fiber cable and things stay cool but slow way down.

Bring on the quantum computing lasers!

5:31:18 PM    please comment []

Another writer steps forward to claim triumph in the Shakespeare-attribution free-for-all:

Certainly, this amendment of my earlier work on "A Fine, Fine Boy" does nothing to undermine my monograph "But Will You Love Me Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow," which posits that the songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King are but pseudonyms (and egregious ones, at that) for the Bard of Avon.

I think the world is ripe for my theory that the interwoven episodic nature of such landmark television shows as Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, Northern Lights and of course E.R. is solid evidence that they were ghost-written by Charles Dickens.

5:20:19 PM    please comment []