Weekly Ten (04-01-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Top 10 April Fools' Pranks for Nerds
Here are the top 10 tech-related April Fools' jokes to play on friends and co-workers. The best geek pranks make a gadget or a co-worker's computer appear "broken." Watch with glee as the unsuspecting victim goes mental trying to figure it out.

More @ Wired

2. Linux Declared 'Hacker Proof'
The Linux running on a Sony Vaio remained undefeated at the end of a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
More @ AllHeadlineNews

3. Announcing Project Virgle
In my life, I've had a lot of exciting adventures and launched a lot of ambitious business ventures. I'm delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google which qualifies on both counts.
More @ Googleblog

4. Reverse engineering the Novint Falcon
More @ HackaDay

5. Revisiting The Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
I like to re-read my favorite books every few years, so I brought Robert Glass' seminal Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering with me on my most recent trip. I thought it was a decent, but imperfect read when I originally bought it in 2004.
More @ CodingHorror

6. Apple encountering ongoing US-wide iPhone shortage
Checks with stores across the US show Apple to have been virtually devoid of iPhone stock for days, even at its online store -- and with signs that the company is aware of its widespread nature.
More @ AppleInsider

7. Report: Mozilla enterprise browser share hits 18 percent
On the same day that Mozilla is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Mozilla source code release, Forrester Research analysts have released a new study that shows that Firefox’s market share among business users has doubled in the past year, and is now at 18 percent.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

8. Nokia WiMAX N810 appears in the wild
More @ Engadget

9. Trying to get PyPy to run on Python 3.0
As you surely know, Python 3.0 is coming; recently, they released Python 3.0 alpha 3, and the final version is expected around September.
More @ PyPy Status Blog

10. Why I Look Like Tom Cruise
I get interviewed a lot. Perhaps once a week, I get interviewed (No joke).
More @ BoSanchezBlog

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