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Some more links:

• Forking vs. Threading—fight! Contains a quick FAQ about why you might choose one over the other.
• iPhone-friendly Websites—useful code snippets.
• HTML5 + CSS3—the future (and desired present) of website construction
• HTML5 canvas cheat sheet—to continue my collection of web-oriented links
• The Mechanical Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell—analog computers
• conc lists—organizing data for O(n log n) performance (this example in Erlang)
• Postmortem on the Google AI contest winner—lots of good information
• KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People—build integrated circuits… as a Communist. No, I’m not clear on the connection, but it seems like an in-depth circuit-building game!
• Sorting a Linked List with Selection Sort—a short-and-sweet blog piece
• The HTML5 Audio Element—quick demo

More links:

• How do we kick our synchronous addiction? Some talk about asynchronous coding, contains a clean JavaScript implementation and mentions Erlang.
• Creating a toy virtual machine with PyPy. The PyPy project is pretty cool.
• Visualising Sorting Algorithms. An approach different than that of Wikipedia, and I think maybe more clear.
• CopperLicht, a 3D JavaScript engine that uses WebGL. Looks cool, but none of my Linux browsers support WebGL, apparently.
• Design 0.101 for Programmers; just a tad to help you through the day.
• Excerpt from the Case Study of  The Space Shuttle Primary Control System. Story of an all-systems lockup in the Space Shuttle simulator and how it was debugged. No software impresses me more than the Shuttle’s.
• My Favorite Liar; “One of my favorite professors in college was a self-professed liar.” Kept the students well on their toes.
• Mnesia: A distributed database rooted in concurrency. Nice little intro to Erlang’s built-in database.

Just some links from today.

• Pranksters are using Google Maps to help Berliners track one of the camera-equipped vehicle Google has sent out to photograph Berlin’s streets, after they attached a GPS device the car.
• Welcome to Torus, a cool HTML5 Tetris-ish game, and an example of what HTML5 can do.
• How Farmville Scales to 75 M Players Per Month, a short summary.
• Using a 1964 modem on the Intertubes.  No, not even I was born then.
• Source code for the book ”Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective”. I haven’t read the book and know nothing about it, but it looks like a good pile of AI code written largely in Python.
• How Erlang is used in Facebook Chat. I like Erlang.