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jsonscripteron Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

The web is getting really exciting again! I mean, it always has been, but these open protocols, open platforms, and general openness has really got me smiling :)

So many possibilities!

jsonscripteron World of Goo Releases Rapid Prototyping Framework

Woo! It has the "do whatever you want with this framework" license, too!

Someone should port it to Linux and OS X, or at least have some instructions for those platforms. I'm sure it will work on those, as WoG is available.

Also: If you even mildly enjoy casual games, I would highly recommend playing and/or purchasing World of Goo. It has wonderful artwork and a some very nice pop-culture critiques between the lines.

jsonscripteron The Three Sexy Skills of Data Geeks

I've never heard anyone call XSLT elegant before.

jsonscripteron Reasons Not To Take VC Money

I'm sure there's just as many reasons to take VC money. It totally depends on your business plan.

jsonscripteron Bespin: Code in the Cloud

I tried it out. There's a lot of work to be done before anyone can judge it properly, I think.

The biggest problem at the moment for me is the time it takes to load a file. brutal.

jsonscripteron ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More

Unless the data format is written in a language...

jsonscripteron Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say

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jsonscripteron Why don't all whales have cancer?

Maybe the hypertumor gets it's own tumor after a while, and the cycle continues. Or the immune system of the whale which doesn't react to the original tumor does react to the hypertumor. Or maybe the hypertumor only grows on the original tumors type of tissue. Etc.

This article is just about a hypothesis. It's anyones guess at the moment.

jsonscripteron Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole

Black holes are visible, but emit less radiation than the cosmic microwave background. It's therefore possible to take a picture of one if you have very very sensitive instruments.

However, the article is talking about taking a picture of a shadow, which isn't really the same thing. Yes, it's impressive, but it really should read something like "First Picture of Black Hole's Direct Effects". We've already taken pictures of gravitational lensing caused by black holes, so we've seen some indirect effects.

jsonscripteron What Would You Do with a $40 Computer?

Beowulf cluster.

jsonscripteron Chris Pirillo likes Tonido.

Perhaps Tonido gets the plugs for cheaper than 99 dollars. Sounds like Tonido has a deal with Marvell.

jsonscripteron ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More

Then why are you using JSON? JSON is for best practices. Requiring quotes so that some interpreters don't get confused is exactly the type of thing JSON is for.