"The futurist Ray Kurzweil has come up with a major advance on eReader software that consumers can try out as early as next month. Blio, available free for the PC and iPhone, offers features such as 3D page turns and a bookshelf where readers can rotate books to see backcover and spine."

"Since its early days, deterministic sequential game semantics has been limited to linear or polarized fragments of linear logic. Every attempt to extend the semantics to full propositional linear logic has bumped against the so-called Blass problem, which indicates (misleadingly) that a category of sequential games cannot be self-dual and cartesian at the same time. We circumvent this problem by considering (1) that sequential games are inherently positional; (2) that they admit internal positions as well as external positions. We construct in this way a sequential game model of propositional linear logic, which incorporates two variants of the innocent arena game model: the well-bracketed and the non well-bracketed ones. "

Oooh of course! Absolutely! =D

"شبکه جنبش راه سبز (جرس): در حالی که روزنامه های اصلاح طلب به کوچکترین بهانه ای توقیف می شوند در اقدامی بی سابقه روزنامه "وطن امروز" به مدیرمسئولی مهرداد بذرپاش، تیتر نخست خود را به سخنان مریم رجوی اختصاص داد. گفتنی است در دوران اصلاحات، روزنامه "زن" با مسئولیت فائزه هاشمی بخشی از پیام فرح دیبا را منتشر کرد و به همین بهانه توقیف شد و تجمعاتی نیز در برابر این روزنامه صورت گرفت."

SECOND batch of my Iran photos online NOW! =D

First batch of my photos from Iran are finally online, here! [many more to come! =)]

Haha... yeah that's true. =) Some of them do have a tiny explanation underneath them... the rest are just random places in Tehran.

"December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery. see caption"Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system," explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. "This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together and solves the long-standing puzzle of how it can exist at all.""

"Recently I have posted a zipping plugin - "On the Fly Zip and Attach" - for Windows Live Writer. I actually developed this component that was consumed in the writer's zipping plugin. I thought to share with you the approach of design/development of this component, from use cases to its implementation along with unit tests using Visual Studio-2008 Unit Test infrastructure."

Since I totally luv IDEA...... "We use JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE and love its features, functionality, and price point. Dealing with its performance is another matter, however. When developing Seam 2.x applications, IDEA can just crawl - and this is when sticking to just one project or SVN branch at a time. Some of the biggest performance hits our team has noticed are: 1. File indexing on IDEA startup 2. Long code completion times when editing XHTML/JSF files 3. Pauses when switching from one Java or XHTML file to another 4. Calls to Ant targets can drag on forever for no apparent reason while others time they are tidy and fast Here is a collection of ideas on how to improve the performance of IDEA; note that not all of these will be applicable to your environment or application. For example, we wouldn't consider turning off local history options as this is invaluable. 1. If you're not using Subversion or other version control system, turn off synchronized files. This can be disabled from the Settings -> General, and disabling "Synchronize Files on Frame Activation". 2. Revert to IDEA's original visual interface. Browse to Settings -> Appearance and select the "IDEA 4.5 Default" theme. 3. Decrease the size of local history of code changes. Even if you find this feature invaluable, you can still improve performance of IDEA by reducing the number of days of local history IDEA will store. By default this option is set to three days! 4. Disable unused plugins. You mean you're not developing GWT apps and you're not working with JetGroovy? Great, then why not disable some of those plugins? 5. Increase the IDEA Java VM heap size. I can attest to this offering much improved performance; if you can spare the memory, follow these directions: 1. locate your Program Files/JetBrains/IDEA x.x/bin directory 2. open idea.exe.vmoptions 3. modify Xms, Xmx, and XX:MaxPermSize settings as needed"

LOST season 6 - Everything Ends!

OMG OMG.... LOST season 6 is finally here..... can't wait to see.... =D

"Texas Instruments TI has a 25+ year history covering the video market from one end of the video chain to the other. Customers can leverage TI's expertise in video to launch differentiated products quickly and cost-effectively in any number of market segments. This comprehensive guide is a useful resource for developers of various video and vision products."

"The latest episode of the Robots podcast takes a closer look at three of our favorite news items in 2009. Co-coordinator of the Octopus European project Cecilia Lashi, talks about their soft bio-mimetic robotic octopus arm. Our second guest, hobbyist Carl Morgan, presents Joules, the sleek silver humanoid that rides behind your tandem bike and does all the pedaling. Finally, we speak with Carson Reynolds who is professor at the University of Tokyo about his high-speed robotic hand (shown in the video above). Read on or tune in! "

Kool stuff! =)

"The next book in the thrilling New York Times bestselling series. For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war--and the rightful First Lord of Alera. But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them--using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness."