News
Amazon EC2 Outage
http://www.informationweek.com/articles/229402054?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
Portal 2
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/portal-2-ars-shares-the-correct-way-to-do-science.ars
Wii 2?
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34241/Wii_Successor_Rumors_Continue_May_Launch_Early_2012.php
Lego assembly line
http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/20/wow-model-factory-made-with-lego-robots-moves-48-items-per-minute-video/
Tool of the day
Jason: SketchUp w/ thing-o-matic http://sketchup.google.com/ and http://store.makerbot.com/makerbot-thing-o-matic.html
Patrick: TI MSP430 http://e2e.ti.com/group/msp430launchpad/w/default.aspx
Programming Language Discussion (Matlab/Octave)
Matlab http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/
Use
History
Vendor Lock-in
Open Source
Octave http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
Language details:
interpreted
VM latency
Toolboxes (standard library that costs $)
Optimized functions (jacket, FFTW, etc.)
