Programmer’s Log Programmers Writing Stuff – Garry Bodsworth

Links To End The World

The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World
Just to be a bit paranoid when the Large Hadron Collider is about to go online.

The State of the Language: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
More about C++, its past and its future.

Open-source gaming goes commercial with Wiz handheld
Another example of Gamepark Holding's handheld gaming devices. There is a great online community and it has support for loads of emulators mainly thanks to their previous device the GP2X. The Wiz will have an ARM9 533MHz and a 3D accelerator, so it will definitely be able to cope with what will get thrown at it (especially when you consider the GP2X had dual 200MHz processors).

Repeat tests show iPhone 3G doesn't suffer from faulty hardware
Because real evidence should really trump hearsay and gut feeling.

TouchKit: Open Source Multi-Touch
Make your own multi-touch device, with software and the hardware kit. If you are a bit technically able you could create yourself a cool piece of kit.

20Q The Simpsons Edition
One Christmas I spent ages trying to see how good one of the 20Q toys was at guessing what I was thinking and I even went so far as to think of "corpse" and it came up with "cadaver". With the Simpsons being a slightly smaller search space I can't imagine it ever getting any answer wrong.

Picwing intros social digital picture frame
A Linux-based computer in a picture frame for digital content, currently in beta.

IOGEAR's Wireless USB to VGA kit extends your monitor sans wires
I guess this might have something to do with DisplayLink...

Will “TV Widgets” Change the Way You Watch TV?
It's amazing it has taken them this long to realise the whole TV channel does not have to be delivered over the Internet, but you can augment it with widgets. It'll just be something else to adblock.

10 Most Beautiful Plasma Themes for KDE 4 Desktop
Linux and KDE together looking good.