Opinion

  • Technical Notes on O3D

    Google released O3D, a web plugin for 3d rendering, today. It’s a pretty sweet piece of work. Definitely check it out if you have any interest in 3d rendering, the web, or JavaScript. There are a couple of cool pieces to this puzzle, and I wanted to call them out to other people who might…

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  • PlayStation Home: Serial Killer Edition

    PlayStation Home came out not too long ago. Penny Arcade pretty much said what needs to be said about it, but I had to try it myself. Naturally the first thing you do is create your character from a randomized (I hope) default character. To the left is the default character that I got. ……

  • Web Service Explosion: Put Out The Fire With FriendFeed

    How many web services do you use that have a section for linking into your other web services? I love having my internet presence linked together. But the number of links grows quickly. 10 services means 50 links that you have to maintain. Most of these integrations are there just to post nice status messages from one…

  • Larrabuzz

    A bunch of great papers related to Larrabee from Siggraph 08. Great perspective on parallel computing in general. My read is that the GPU guys don’t have a clue. A lot of their talent has moved on. They’re focusing on maximizing flops without realizing that it isn’t always the flops that matter – it’s how…