del.icio.us/dossy links since August 20, 2007 at 09:00 AM

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since August 20, 2007 at 09:00 AM:

• MonetDB: Query Processing at Light Speed
  MonetDB is an open source database that uses column-oriented storage to speed up OLAP/data mining, and appears to be quite stable/mature.
  Tags: opensource, software, database
• Astronomers Find a Hole in the Universe – washingtonpost.com
  “Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe.” The universe–it’s a donut. Believe it.
  Tags: article, science, astronomy, donut
• MilkandCookies – Content Aware Image Resizing
  Image retargeting using least-energy seams and pixel paths–very cool!
  Tags: article, computer, image, processing, algorithm, research, video
• The Net Takeaway: Harvey Balls
  Harvey Ball invented the Smiley. Harvey Poppel invented the 5 circle icon set often used to represent a scale visually, thus gaining them the name “Harvey Balls.”
  Tags: blog, reference, history, harvey
• How to Stop the Windows Update Nag Windows! – DygiScape
  “sc stop wuauserv”
  Tags: blog, reference, microsoft, windows, howto