Yes, you can also get the games for MacOSX or Windows, but availability for Linux is much more surprising. I have played World of Goo on the Mac, and it is a really high quality game even if it is a little too repetitive to keep me engaged. Unfortunately, I think this video hired the Chicago Bears to do the rapping.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Postgres-XC

Apparently, financial institutions can be parasitic even without a bailout.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BRO20100422&articleId=18809

Often, when I am reading a contract that I need to sign, I wish I could just run it through an interpreter or compiler or maybe even step through it in a debugger. Instead, I’m forced to evaluate all the tedious logic in my head. Well, apparently, the SEC may start disambiguating parts of their legal documents by using a programming language instead of English, and Python is the language being suggested. Now, if only the IRS would do the same. Of course, knowing them, they’ll use BASIC so they can keep putting numbers by each line and use GOTOs, since that is exactly how their current forms work now. It’s really easy to fill in the numbers, but it’s hard to figure out why you got the result you did.

http://www.itworld.com/government/105031/will-wall-street-require-python

This is a interesting presentation on how A/B testing can reveal very surprising results for changes in your website. Even tiny UI changes can have a huge impact on revenue. A/B testing can also be useful for changes that don’t affect the UI at all, since they can reveal bugs in the new infrastructure or implementation. Best of all, it allows you to find problems without waiting for a user to complain about it.

Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web: Listen to Your Customers not to the HiPPO
• Video
• Slides and paper

http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers

BTW, you can hover over the parts of the graph so you can figure out which line is for which app, since the color coding doesn’t work with so many lines.

Benchmark of Cassandra, HBase, and PNUTS with MySQL as a reference point.

Presentation

Research Document

Chrome appears to have some fairly serious bugs that can lead to deleted bookmarks. I tried deleting a single bookmark in the bookmark manager, and it ended up deleting an entire folder. Fortunately, there is a Bookmarks.bak available until the next time you quit chrome. This wouldn’t have been such a big problem if I hadn’t already been fighting bugs with the Xmarks bookmark syncing plugin for Chrome. I have now turned on Chrome’s built-in bookmark syncing, but I still use Firefox quite a bit, so I wish Xmarks and Chrome weren’t so buggy. This is why I normally avoid beta software like the plague.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=56d0b36c2e503bd6&hl=en

http://www.osnews.com/story/22872/Linux_Not_Fully_Prepared_for_4096-Byte_Sector_Hard_Drives