An interesting read: “A life in the day: David de Rothschild“. Yes, he’s one of those famous Rothschilds.

He’s planning to sail a catamaran created from recycled plastic junk to an area in the Pacific Ocean, where all kinds of plastic junk is circulating and destroying the wildlife.

We�ll sail through some of the world�s most ecologically threatened regions, including the Great Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, where currents converge and marine debris � 90% plastic � gathers. As this debris consists of microscopic fragments, it�s getting straight into the food chain.

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In the world of Chromium OS, applications will be web apps. Access to the applications will be through the web browser. The web apps live in the cloud, i.e. in a bunch of servers somewhere in the Internet.

In light of this, let’s talk about cloud computing. More specifically, let’s talk about the security and privacy trade-offs of non-cloud and cloud computing.

Do you trust the cloud?
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A battle took place, at a narrow sea-shore lined track at Thermopylae, about 2500 years ago. The defenders fought valiantly against the Persians but were ultimately killed to the last man.

Simonides of Ceos wrote about it with these words:

Go tell the Spartans, you who read:
we took their orders, and lie here dead.

There comes a time in each man’s life that he can’t even believe his own eyes.

A new programming language has emerged from Google. It’s called Go.

And one thing is certain, someone’s responsible!

These people are Rob Pike, Ken Thompson (of the Plan 9 fame), and .

I’ll bet my badge right now we haven’t seen the last of those weirdies.

(You might want to read this also.)

Thanks to Christophe-Marie, who sent me a link of a very interesting video of a UI concept where the mouse is no longer relevant. Instead, multi-finger touch is used, with quite natural gestures.

Here’s the video by C. Miller.

Why do I like it?
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To help keep the Andromeda strain swine flu away, you should take a swine flu shot.

Ingredients:

• 4 cl of Red Opal (Icelandic salmiac-menthol vodka)
• a squeeze of lemon juice
• freshly ground black pepper

Enjoy!