From Around the Web
7 Webotainers Worth Watching – Wired shares some of the best places to find original internet-exclusive Geek video programming, like My Roommate the Cylon or SpellFury.
100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything – Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language.
Clean Up and Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac – A few years back you dropped significant cash to switch over to a shiny new Mac, but over time it’s gotten slow and crufty. Let’s clean it up.
Ten Beautiful Computers – From the Spectrum to the Quantum Computer, they ended their lives as museum pieces, aquariums, couches, and even at the bottom of the sea. But these are the ones that stay with us.
Travel full-time for less than $14,000 per year – Not particularly Geeky, but a nice read to induce fantasies of a more adventurous lifestyle.
Why Do Computers Suck at Math? – 399 999 999 999 999 – 399 999 999 999 998 = 0. Google can’t be wrong — math is! But Google is hardly alone; this is just another example in a long and storied history of obscure little computer math errors that go way back.
Wolfram Alpha – A new type of search engine, a “knowledge engine” goes live today. Very convenient for fact checkers, Wolfram Alpha displays standard reference entries in response to a query, rather than a list of website. It’s quiet flexible, too. Try entering a location, a math formula, or a common word. (Don’t miss these 10 Easter Eggs while you’re exploring.)
Tech News
World’s fastest CPU clocked at 128 gigaflops
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http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com Nora Dunn
