Friday, October 07, 2005

Bill Is Signed to Restrict Video Games in California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation to outlaw the sale to teenagers of electronic games featuring reckless mayhem and explicit sexuality. By JOHN M. BRODER. [NYT > Technology] 11:29:53 PM      Google It!.

Creating .NET C# Applications for Linux. [Slashdot] 4:44:20 PM      Google It!.

Shift in brain's language-control site offers rehab hope. Scientists have found that the site in the brain that controls language in right-handed people shifts with aging--a discovery that might offer hope in the treatment of speech problems resulting from traumatic brain injury or stroke. [Science Blog -] 4:07:42 PM      Google It!.

What is the future of open blog infrastructure?. The buzz surrounding VeriSign's acquisition of Dave Winer's weblogs.com prompted me to review my understanding of the blogosphere's notification infrastructure -- a topic I hadn't thought much about for a while. For example, I use Radio UserLand to publish this blog. I know that it pings weblogs.com when I update, and that my updates are reflected in its changes.xml file. But what happens to this data then? I assumed that, one way or another, it found its way to all of the aggregation and search services that I'd hope would know about my updates. ... [Jon's Radio] 4:03:16 PM      Google It!.

Google Maps Graduates. [Slashdot] 4:01:23 PM      Google It!.

Dissecting Songs Down to Their 'Musical Genome'. [Slashdot] 3:58:46 PM      Google It!.