Builderau.com has a nice write up of the 10 most useful Linux command. Here is a quick list, find out more detail in the article:
1. top
2. ln
3. tar/zip/gzip
4. nano, vi, emacs
5. grep
6. chmod
7. dmesg
8. kill/killall
9. man
10. mount/umount

http://www.builderau.com.au/program/linux/soa/The-10-most-useful-Linux-commands/0,339028299,339297366,00.htm

MaximumPC has an article about the Game engines throughout the years. http://www.maximumpc.com/print/7079 I can say that I have played games that have used almost all of the engines. It is pretty nice to see the technology behind some of my favorite games.

“Coates,” the new supercomputer, will be built from more than 10,000 computer cores, or processors, versus Steele’s 6,500 cores. Steele was the last super computer Purdue built. Here is the article from Purdue’s website. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/090720McCartneyCoates.html
Here is a short video about the super computer parodying “Cars”

IBM has published in their technical library the new elements that are going into HTML 5. Here is the link to the article: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-html5/
Here are some highlights:

Embedded Media
* Video:<video src=”http://www.cafeaulait.org/birds/sora.mov” />
* Audio: <audio src=”spacemusic.mp3″ autoplay=”autoplay” loop=”20000″ />

New structure elements that clean up all the div tags used today.
* section: A part or chapter in a book, a section in a chapter, or essentially anything that has its own heading in HTML 4
* header: The page header shown on the page; not the same as the head element
* footer: The page footer where the fine print goes; the signature in an e-mail message
* nav: A collection of links to other pages
* article: An independent entry in a blog, magazine, compendium, and so forth

Ziggy Tek has an article about how to set up google voice if you get invited: http://blog.ziggytek.com/2009/07/16/i-received-the-google-voice-invite-the-service-is-absolutely-amazing/

Mental floss has a nice article about how these 16 companies go their names.
1. Kodak
2. Nintendo
3. Sony
4. Sega
5. Nokia
6. Cisco Systems
7. Atari
8. Toshiba
9. Sanyo
10. Seiko
11. Canon
12. Sharp
13. Magnavox
14. Coleco
15. Motorola
16. Samsung
http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/28823.html

Wikihow now has how to make a lol-cat. If you follow the directions you can make a lol-cat for yourself and share it with the world. There are only a few steps and this wikihow articles makes it real easy.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Lolcat
Lolcats are addictive! Be forewarned!

If you do not understand how lol-cat speak is translated here is a good resource. Just type in English what you want translated and it into lol-cat. http://speaklolcat.com/

If you create any lol-cats feel free to post them to my forum: Lol-cat forum page

VLC 1.0.0 include the following improvements:

* Free, Open Source and cross-platform
* Independant of systems codecs to support most video types
* Live recording
* Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
* Finer speed controls
* New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
* New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and major improvements in many formats…
* New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
* Video scaling in fullscreen
* RTSP Trickplay support
* Zipped file playback
* Customizable toolbars
* Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
* Better integration in Gtk environments
* MTP devices on linux
* AirTunes streaming
* New skin for the skins2 interface

Get it here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index2.html

The google apps taken out of beta are Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and Talk. Here is an article from the New York Time: Technology section Bits. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/gmail-and-other-google-apps-finally-shed-beta-label/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Interesting http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm