Weekly Ten (12-22-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Astronomers Find Most Distant Water in the Universe
Astronomers have found the most distant water yet seen in the Universe, in a galaxy more than 11 billion light-years from Earth. Previously, the most distant water had been seen in a galaxy less than 7 billion light-years from Earth.
More @ NRAO.edu

2. Top 10 Open Source Stories Of 2008
The advent of Linux-powered netbooks, the launch of Google's Android and Chrome, and Nokia's move to snap up Symbian pushed open source further into the mainstream, despite ongoing legal wrangling.
More @ InformationWeek

3. New search-by-style options for Google Image Search
Many of us use Google Image Search to find imagery of people, clip art for presentations, diagrams for reports, and of course symbols and patterns for artistic inspiration. Unfortunately, searching for the perfect image can be challenging if the search results match the meaning of your query but aren't in a style that's useful to you.
More @ Googleblog

4. Modifying R/C frequency

More @ HackaDay

5. How To Program Google Android
About a year ago Google and their Open Handset Alliance Partners made a lot of noise about Android. At the time it was nothing but a pre-beta SDK and an earnest promise of hardware, but barely a year later the first Android phone – the HTC G1 – is now available in the US and UK.
More @ GoogleBlogoscoped

6. openSUSE 11.1 makes Christmas come early
It's that time of the year again. No, not Christmas -- it's the time of the year we get the latest versions of our favorite Linux distributions. Version 11.1 of openSUSE is being released today. Designated as a point release, there are enough new goodies to warrant a new install or upgrade.
More @ Linux.com

7. Mozilla CEO: Ties with Google 'complicated' since Chrome
Mozilla Corp. has a "reasonable" relationship with long-time partner Google Inc., but it's gotten complicated since Google launched its own browser, according to Mozilla's chief executive.
More @ ComputerWorld

8. 60,000-Piece Lego Star Wars Hoth Diorama Features LEDs, Footprints

More @ Gizmodo

9. Hard Work and Practice in Programming
There's a long arc in computing that teaches us how much we gain through advances in ease-of-use, with the iPhone being the latest breakthrough success. But it's important to remember how much we lose when we think that ease of use is everything. Many things worth doing are hard, requiring a great deal of practice before you achieve mastery.
More @ OreillyRadar

10. Editor's Note: Best Linux Books of 2008
I love books. I read books, write books, and collect books. After years of too-small homes I finally have a house big enough to hold all my books. Yes, the bookworm's dream come true, a whole room dedicated to a book library. It's not a huge room, just a small bedroom, but it holds all of my books and there is room for future acquisitions.
More @ LinuxToday