Category Archives: General News

Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy

First Adobe kills Mobile Flash and now Flex looks like it’s about to wither away.

Ars Technica – Apple launches iTunes Match: music hoarders need not apply

Seems like a great deal if you either have a lot of music that is in cruddy ver­sions or are away from wher­ever most of your music is a lot.

Prop Store – Butter Cup Valley

Behind the scenes pho­tos of Return of the Jedi, what more do you need to know?

TechCrunch – Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84

Reminded of what I wrote not even two weeks ago after Den­nis Ritchie died, of how the inno­va­tors of Com­puter Sci­ence were mostly still alive and it became a lit­tle less true.

Tim Bray – Dennis Ritchie

One of the giants of Com­puter Sci­ence dies.

NYTimes.com – Subtropical Wisconsin

Fox News, we mis­lead, you decide.

The Big Picture – A harrowing, historic week in Egypt

Some incred­i­bly pow­er­ful images here of the Egypt­ian protests.