JSNES, a javascript nintendo game emulator. You can play Contra on it.

http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/

It is almost only playable on Chrome. Firefox is so slow. My IE 6 cannot even display it.

MySpace open-sourced its C# based MapReduce framwork Qizmt today.

http://www.myspace.com/pressroom?url=/article_display.cfm?article_id=1075

As mentioned, Qizmt is used for MySpace recommendation systems.

It seems the formal link is here

http://qizmt.myspace.com/

sina will launch a twitter-like microblogging service. when chinese clone products, usually no detail will be missed. it even only allows 140 characters too. actually i hope yahoo can clone other products in this no-brainer way, since it turns out most features yahoo missed in the beginning will be eventually added anyway. it is more important to enter the market faster.

An annoying problem

http://i.tuaw.com/2009/06/21/inside-iphone-3-0-fix-too-strict-passcode-lock-settings-for-exc/