Kanellos the Greek protest dog.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/may/06/greece-protest

Branch prediction

http://igoro.com/archive/fast-and-slow-if-statements-branch-prediction-in-modern-processors/

vcdiff / dmdiff

Bently-mcllroy compression.

http://code.google.com/p/open-vcdiff/

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.8470&rep=rep1&type=pdf

-JD

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Cliff Click is da man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYXgtXWejRM