tptacek: “Although deconstructionism forces us to concede that any “slant” in XKCD is merely a textual artifact, and all critical perspectives on the work are equally valid, it is nevertheless more equally valid to conclude that XKCD’s gender politics may be more self-serving to the author than a legitimate (pace manocentric male-ocratic words like “legitimate”) statement of empathy or outrage over the station of the modern woman in today’s technological world.” Also don’t miss Infinitesimal Jest: Towards A Intertextual Metanarrative Of Subtextual Resonances Between XKCD and XKCD-Explained.
Fudzilla: ATI increases 5850 price. I was waiting, but after this news I ordered from Amazon at $260.
The Register: Intel aims 30W Nehalem at ‘microservers’. It’s interesting to see Intel talking about optimizing cost given that their pricing is mostly artificial.
Kirk Wylie: Monty, Stallman, MySQL, Oracle, and Sun: Open Letter Wars.
