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by Nat Torkington | @gnat | Comment | 21 February 2008

Yahoo! launch world's largest production Hadoop installation (Yahoo!). Hadoop is the open source implementation of Google's map-reduce system of parallel programming. For background on Hadoop, see Doug Cutting and Eric Baldeschwieler's the OSCON 2007 talks.
Author of this article at Duke University is having his genome sequenced at Harvard as part of his writing a book about personal genomics.
Brain Control Headset for Gamers (BBC). New UIs are breakin' out all over.
Tom Coates reviews the OLPC (Tom's blog). I wish more tech writing were this good.
Library of Congress taps Silverlight to enhance access (via Tim Bray). I like some of the stuff Microsoft has been doing, but this is a backward step for the LoC, accessibility, and openness. It feels like "we'll pay to digitize your data, but your web site can only deliver it to Windows users" and someone at the LoC said "ok!". Tell me this isn't the case!
An interesting post from Sean McGrath about how programmers keep reinventing the things that make sane parallel programming possible.
A look back in time to hosting packages from a decade ago (Pingdom's blog). From 150M of storage to >150G, but price is exactly the same.
Why we banned Legos (Rethinking Schools). I think there are lessons for team leads and open source programmers in how the kids played with Legos.
Brad Neuberg, Tara Hunt, and Chris Messina in an article on coworking (NYTimes, reg required). Go Foos!
PlayMotion's core product is a camera and software that lets people interact with projected video. Now they have multitouch interfaces to rear-projected screens. This could be very cool. See their sample movies (WMV) for a sample. (Found via this Tech Journal South article).

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