Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Stellarium

Startup Weekends begin on a Friday evening and the project is completed by Sunday night - about 56 hours. Before the event people coordinate via an online wiki to throw out some ideas for a company and product. When the Startup Weekend kicks off, attendees vote on ideas then dole out tasks (ranging from legal to back-end development) to everyone there. There’s always something for someone to do and even if you can’t code your way out of a cardboard box you can at least write website copy or provide feedback to the designers.

Memestreams is dripping with ereetness. You guys need to sign up for this thing.

Startup Weekend Atlanta — November 9-11

Demand, Difficulty... Artificial Limitations?
So far, the barriers of demand and difficulty don't look like a problem for the iPhone. What about artificial limitations created by Apple?

Apple has quite pointedly stated that it believes that an unmanaged amalgam of shareware and open source would result in a phone like the Palm Treo or WinCE / Windows Mobile phones, where security is problematic and system instabilities are a common problem.

That's simply difficult to argue against. While the idea of a Linux based PDA phone that runs everything and burps out source code on demand sounds great and is politically correct, there's a reason why such a thing is conspicuously missing from the market: it makes even less sense than Linux on the desktop.

Inside the iPhone: Third Party Software

In short, the world of 2007 is radically different from the world of the late 1970s. However, none of the major vendors have performed a complete redesign to deal with this changed landscape. As such they should be considered legacy technology, more than a quarter of century in age and "long in the tooth".

In every major application area I can think of, it is possible to build a SQL DBMS engine with vertical market-specific internals that outperforms the "one size fits all" engines by a factor of 50 or so. Vertica is an example of this claim in the data warehouse market. It achieves blindingly fast warehouse performance by:

Huh?

One Size Fits All - A Concept Whose Time Has Come and Gone - The Database Column

Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned.

We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.

Steve Jobs
Apple CEO

Apple - To all iPhone customers

Only $299 for a 4GB iPhone. Get em while they're HOT! They'll be gone soon.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=BC784DCD&nplm=MA501LL/A

The Apple Store (U.S.) - iPhone, 4GB - $299

Eclipse is a new world for Microsoft� Visual Studio� developers, and getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Learn about these and other differences between the two environments, so that you can begin to feel at home with Eclipse.

All integrated development environments (IDEs) share similarities because they're all built for the same purpose. But they have differences, too. Some of these can be attributed to application domains, but others result from the IDE design.

I use Eclipse for Java, Perl, Javascript, XML/HTML/CSS. Some its great for, others I use it for just because its nice to have all my shite done in one place.

An introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio users

I love this thing. I love it. Thanks so much for the invite, whoever sent it.

Finally, I have the power over who can and can't call me. I changed my cell number and am never giving it out to anyone. I can enter my GC number into any form and never have to worry about telemarketers, as I have SPAM filtering enabled, and if I don't know you then you must announce yourself before you can reach me. And if I don't like you, I block you.

It rings me on SkypeIn, Cellie, and home if I'm there, all at the same time. This means people I want to get ahold of me actually can, any time I'm available, and I don't have to look under cushions for the phone. I just click accept.

All features I've wanted on my phones for 20 years or so, but nobody ever bothered to offer.

Grand Central is as bad ass as gmail was when it first came out. Its great. I love it.

Google GrandCentral

Podcast with Your Iphone: How-to Video
Posted on 08.29.07 by andyed @ 12:41 pm

The iPhone hacking community has come a long in the couple months since the iPhone was released, under extensibility lockdown. Not only can you now get an iPhone “out of jail”, there are a growing set of useful native applications.

It turns out one of the things the iPhone does really well is record podcasts. The combination of the adaptive multi-rate format, the iPhone speakerphone, and ad hoc recording scenarios produces a suprisingly solid outcome when combined with the freely available Levelator tool. Check this short video for a how-to.

Surf*Mind*Musings » Podcast with Your Iphone: How-to Video

Cutting edge filesystem, circa 1919.

Female employees at the Bureau of War Risk Insurance file fire proof records of the name and address of every man who carried Uncle Sam's War Risk Insurance. From the National Photo Company collection, 1919.

Insurance Records: 1919 | Shorpy Vintage Photos