Links for Monday, November 6, 2006
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Daily Tech: NVIDIA “G80″ GeForce 8800GTX Performance Explored – “NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800GTX scores 59% higher than ATI’s current flagship.” Dear Santa, I’ve been a good boy this year…
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Job Syntax Blog: Tips for Keeping Your Work-Life Harmony Intact – “I love how normal is such a relative word. The funny thing is that I don’t think I know what normal looks like anymore. In the past few weeks, I’ve been tossed around so much between my personal life and my business life I don’t know which way is up.“
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Popular Science: The Flying Luxury Hotel – “During the flight, passengers would peer at national landmarks just 8,000 feet below or, if they weren’t captivated by the view, the cavernous interior would easily accommodate such amenities as luxury staterooms, restaurants, even a casino.“
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Kevin Burton: Using Amazon EC2 and S3 for Cheap Cluster Computing – “Truth be told if I were to run Tailrank over on EC2 I could probably save a bunch of cash. The problem is that it would end up costing me more to migrate right now than anything else. At least two weeks worth of work so I’m not in too much of a hurry.“
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Chris Spurgeon: NASA Dawn of the Apollo Program Slides – 20 awesome memories.
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Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft – “Apollo was America’s program to land men on the moon and get them safely back to the earth. In May 1961 President Kennedy gave the signal for planning and developing the machines to take men to that body. This decision, although bold and startling at the time, was not made at random – nor did it lack a sound engineering base.“