Worldchanging: Bright Green: The Last Viridian Note : Bruce Sterling says, “buy a good bed”. great stuff
(tags: bruce-sterling viridian design philosophy ideas worldchanging sustainability simplicity green environment stuff future culture)Xbox LIVE gets Universal Pictures content : Irish and UK Xbox Live users can now download movies. unfortunately, they only offer 30 of them! FAIL
(tags: fail xbox-360 xbox-live via:laura ireland universal-pictures)How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data : what a hack! basically using MySQL as a replicated, highly-scalable storage engine and ignoring many of the RDBMS features to avoid schema change locks
(tags: mysql hacks scaling storage scalability schema schemaless blob friendfeed sql database)