Category: General News
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
First Adobe kills Mobile Flash and now Flex looks like it’s about to wither away.
Ars Technica – Apple launches iTunes Match: music hoarders need not apply
Seems like a great deal if you either have a lot of music that is in cruddy versions or are away from wherever most of your music is a lot.
Prop Store – Butter Cup Valley
Behind the scenes photos of Return of the Jedi, what more do you need to know?
TechCrunch – Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84
Reminded of what I wrote not even two weeks ago after Dennis Ritchie died, of how the innovators of Computer Science were mostly still alive and it became a little less true.
Tim Bray – Dennis Ritchie
One of the giants of Computer Science dies.
NYTimes.com – Subtropical Wisconsin
Fox News, we mislead, you decide.
Salon.com – Why can’t we watch Al Jazeera?
The first part is just sad, the second makes other cable news companies look pathetic in comparison.
The New Yorker – News Desk: Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google?
This is super short article but man it details the entire story of Schmidt leaving Google as C.E.O.
BBC News – Giffords shooting: Suspect Jared Loughner charged
What a tragedy.