distributed memory caching system (Caching Proxy Server?) to improve Scalability, esp for Data Base-backed systems (more)

People who have to worry most about Raising Kids, Personal Finance, and lots of other things...

a liquidy (blob) object (more)

place for Educating Kids, not paid for by Big Government (more)

MIT professor (more)

Busy Parents, what are your biggest hopes/concerns/fears? (And for bonus points, what are you doing about it?)

There's a Fab At Home project for a DIY 3-D printer for Desktop Fab. While several commerical systems are available, their price range - tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands of dollars - is typically well beyond what an average home user can afford. Furthermore, commercial systems do not usually allow or encourage experimentation with new materials and processes. But more importantly, most - if not all - commercial system are geared towards making passive parts out of a single material. Our goal is to explore the potential of universal fabrication: Machines that can use multiple materials to fabricate complete, active systems. (more)

Within two and a half years, the E O Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, named after the naturalist and founder, hopes to complete a 59-chapter digital Text-Book about biology called Life On Earth. As each chapter is finished, the foundation plans to put it into the hands of anyone who wants it. For free. (more)

iBooks is an EBook application by Apple Computer Inc. It was announced in conjunction with the IPad on January 27, 2010,[1] and was released for the IPhone and IPod Touch in mid-2010, as part of the iOS 4 update. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBooks (more)

InkLing, started by ex-Apple employee MattMacInnis, has a system for building IPad-based Multimedia Text-Book-s, and is working with Mc Graw Hill. Books are available by-the-chapter as well as in entirety. (Chapters can have value as more-narrow Learning Object-s for people not using the Text-Book for a class.) I wonder who's developing the Multimedia bits. (more)

Chris Dent thinks everyone should have a Personal Server that publishes Meta Data to rendering services (like FlickR, Twitter, etc.). Another approach toward Universal Outbox. (more)

As scientists understand it, Single Celled organisms first began evolving into more complex forms more than 500 million years ago, as they began to form multi-cellular clusters. What isn’t understood is just how that process happened. But now, biologists are another step closer figuring out this puzzle, by successfully replicating this key step – using an ingredient common in the making of bread and beer – ordinary Brewer’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). While helping to solve evolutionary riddles here on Earth, it also by extension has bearing on the question of biological Evolution on other planets or moons as well.

Barry L Ritholtz on the importance of Framing the Jobless Recovery for the Presidential Election. During the interregnum, policymakers can identify the biggest obstacles towards Job Creation, and do what they can to remove them. They may determine its rising HealthCare costs, or high taxes on small businesses, or its the expenses of IRS filings for new workers, or litigation exposure or whatever. Identify the key issues, and deal with them. (more)

Chris Dent has some notes for a book he should write: Collaboration etc.

Mastery over self (more)

New Educating Kids In Nyc option, with Curriculum driven by Computer Game-s. The school will be a District 2 school, located in Manhattan, near The New School campus. Quest will open with a 6th grade in fall 2009, adding a new grade each year. (Will go through High School.) (more)

a different kind of Hacker (more)

College Education source in New York City (more)

Mark Pilgrim has gone offline. Bizarre. (more)

Open Source group at BT (more)