Cosmic

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73E5E40315EA40FE&feature=plcp

Facebook

Facebook is valued at "plenty"
By Wall Street's tech cognoscenti,
Take 1 billion friends
Times 5 dollars, then
Times IPO multiple: 20!
— Limericks Économiques

useful libraries

http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2012/02/high-performance-libraries-in-java.html

Reality is 2.3 Billion Pixels per second

An interesting article that claims that reality is 8000 x 4000 x 72 fps.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/09/epics-tim-sweeney-predicts-the-next-20-years-in-gaming-technology/

DropBox + IntelliJ

Pro Tip:

I've been using DropBox to keep my work and home development environments in synch. It's working really well. In fact since intelliJ saves all of it's UI state, all of my bookmarks, windows, open files, (and source of course) is mirrored from work to home.

Magic.

Eye Tracker

In reference to my previous article on eye trackers:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/apple-patent-3d-interface/

Maybe I can just wait and Apple will provide me with an API.

Map Reduce Patterns

http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/mapreduce-patterns/