"When Cloud becomes the Platform"

But the other thing the new codec, known as ORBX.js, features is much, much more significant: it also enables steaming of desktop applications. An application (say, Microsoft Office) could be hosted on a company's server and then used by any employee who logs in to the application. It would not matter what operating system they were using (Windows, OS X or Linux) or even what platform (phone, tablet or desktop), because the browser would be the only thing that matters.

"This is not just remote desktop tech, or X11 reborn via JavaScript]," [blogged Mozilla Foundation CTO Brendan Eich, "Many local/remote hybrid computation schemes are at hand today, e.g., a game can do near-field computing in the browser on a beefy client while offloading lower [level of detail] work to the [game processing unit] cloud."

http://readwrite.com/2013/05/07/coming-soon-desktops-hosted-on-the-cloud-usable-anywhere?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

ISS leaves MS, goes Linux

All the computers on the International Space Station that used to run Windows XP now run Linux, reports Extreme Tech. The reason: Microsoft's OS just wasn't "stable and reliable" enough, according to the United Space Alliance, the spaceflight operations company that manages the hardware onboard the ISS in conjunction with NASA.
http://readwrite.com/2013/05/10/international-space-station-drops-windows-for-linux?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

Glass visits CERN

Stop watch Timer

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/

Open Sourcing Star Wars

"In a statement to Kotaku Australia, a Raven spokesperson said that the company is releasing the code “as a gift to the persistently loyal fanbase for our Jedi games and in memory of LucasArts.” “We wish the best for all the talented people who were let go and hope they find good work in studios in the industry,” the statement read. I did a little digging in the code, and some of the programmers’ comments make the files worth reading even for fans who can’t program. After one huge pile of code involving lighting, one programmer writes “yes, this is completely ridiculous.” Another, commenting on a piece of code for a particle class in Jedi Outcast, noted “Man, this just seems so, like, uncool and stuff…” In a piece of code related to camera control, one programmer sternly advises another, “we’re doing a cut, so just go to the new angles. none of this hifalutin lerping business.” The source code for Jedi Outcast (my favorite Star Wars game) and Jedi Academy can be downloaded from SourceForge.net."

From Wired.

Ultra-Dry Creating a layer of air using Nanotechnology

Skateboards with motors: mmmm.

How safe is this?