links for 2008-08-24

• Tom White: Elastic Hadoop Clusters with Amazon's Elastic Block Store
  (tags: amazon aws hadoop architecture mapreduce ec2 semantic ebs)
• Mark Watson's opinions on Java, Ruby, Lisp, AI, and the Semantic Web
  I am a consultant living in the Mountains of Central Arizona. I am an author of 14 published books covering Artificial Intelligence (AI), Java, C++, Lisp, Linux, and Windows. I specialize in Java and Ruby server side development and Artificial Intelligence programming.
  (tags: blog programming ruby rails ai lisp java)
• How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
  (tags: programming startup web web2.0 article entrepreneurship advice startups management 37signals reddit strategy webdev Software development business)
• Bill's Last Day: The CES Keynote video | Larry Larsen | Channel 10
  (tags: fun video gates microsoft humor podcast)
• gist: 6443 — GitHub
  Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit, and usually more fun than listening to keynotes.
  (tags: programming business startup Software inspiration development entrepreneurship advice productivity opensource presentation motivation talk)