If you were looking for a great example of a collaborative map-reduce, then you don't have look much further than the amount of feedback and commentary that the earlier 'Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser' post received in a short span of twenty four hours. After making appearances on Slashdot,...

Alright folks, since I’m the first one up this morning, I guess we’ll kick things off so we have a place to rant, rave, and celebrate throughout the day.  For some fans, it’s going to be a victorious day, and for others, signing day will look more like a real-life horror film.  F...

If you’re a UT fan, we want to know who you think we get in the comments… Second place sucks. If you’re second place in a ballgame, you freakin’ lost. If you’re second place at the end of the year, that means you likely won your bowl game and think you’re better t...

Before I get started on this, I want to apologize to the readers of 3SIB for being absent lately.  I know that I’ve been around to do a couple live blogs with Ghost and put up a scattered post here and there, but I’ve been noticeably absent since the Christmas holiday.  The end of foot...

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to run our schools and our factories… And that, ladies and gentlemen, is VISION. We must pick ourselves up, dust off, and remake America. …will restore our place in Global responsibility Healthcare baby Healthcare! Yeah baby Please, Amer...

“Keep this in perspective,” I told myself. “He’s a defensive line coach.” As I was painting my Papaw’s old flat-bottom boat this afternoon and VolstotheWall rushed in the paint-fumed room to tell me that the reports were wrong, that Lane and Monte Kiffin performed...

Memo to Motrin: Before you launch an ad on your site that’s targeting mothers of babies, you might want to run it by some focus groups that have…um…moms with babies. There’s a problem with your first video: It does everything but slap your audience in the face, deride them fo...

Springtime for Pluto: Pluto Plays Ball With A Beehive   Or it could be a bear looking for honey, it really doesn't matter. Springtime for Pluto: The Bees Form A Bomber   Since this cartoon was made in 1944, Disney used a military metaphor. Springtime for Pluto: And Finally, The Bees Drop T...

Santogold has ruffled some feathers with her thoughts on the idea of a musician "selling out," which she expressed to New York in an interview that ran this week. "Everybody wants you to sell a lot of records," the former Epic A & R exec told NY's Sara Cardace, "but it's not considered a failure if ...

Separated for now. June 1 [Aberrant] In response to Rousseau's telecom virus, the initial roster of the Aberrants (including Jacques Angel, Chad "The Living Wreck" Berger, Toren "Dr. Worm" Cargill, Danielle Coleridge, Edda Cznievski, Kimberly Dame, Diane "Intergalactic" Holm and Asa "Renaissance Man...