Pete Cashmore @CNN has an interesting piece on Facebook's new "Open Graph" social paradigm.

"Facebook seeks to replace this open system of links between pages with the social links (or Likes) that it controls. Google and other search engines won't have full access to all these Likes, so the company best positioned to rank the Web will be Facebook. No wonder the open web advocates are sounding the alarm"

A recently purchased 500GB laptop drive started acting up. Here's a link to Seagate's testing tool which I used to scan the device & clear a bad block. Disk appears good to go again.

The Chip that Jack Built is a short film from KERA profiling Nobel Prize Winner Jack Kilby, the Texas Instruments engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit (more commonly known as a microchip).

This year, the National Inventors Hall of Fame marks the 50th anniversary since the key patents for the integrated circuit were filed. On February 6, 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed for his milestone patent. His innovation spawned a technological revolution that has made our modern way of life possible, and is found in almost every electronic device we use.

Given such permanent change, anything that survives for more than one generation of processors deserves a nod. Think then what the Unix operating system deserves because in August 2009, it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

I've been having some problems (learning) with my MPC2500, so I became a fan of this site. Pretty active community and some pretty knowledgeable people.

I just added one of these gizmos to my electronic music rig. Here is a site which might offer some helpful tips on proper usage. One of these days I might actually produce a piece of music...