Random Curry

I’m always up for interesting ways to display data…

Crime in San Francisco displayed as elevation

(h/t BoingBoing)

My birthday is coming up, so for those of you who might want to get me something, I’ll accept this…

Real life version of Minority Report’s user interface

This is John Underkoffler, who produced the computer interface for the movie Minority Report. It’s a fifteen-minute long clip, but it’s time very well spent.

If this is too expensive for a gift, a pass to next year’s TED conference would do nicely as well…

(h/t BoingBoing)

Today, gentle readers, we talk about tools that make people’s lives easier and why people don’t use them…

Data Profiling with SQL is Hazardous to Your Company’s Health!

This is pretty funny…

Even Cats Can Figure Out the iPad

(h/t @ocdqblog)

Fascinating blog post from an insider at PeopleSoft on how plans were in the works for an alternate future to Oracle in the 2004 timeframe…

The PeopleSoft/IBM Backstory

I’m wondering if some of my friends who were close to this at the time can confirm/supplement this (Ken? Irv?)?

A new blog posting from your humble narrator…

A Plea to the Engineers

Watch iPad Meet Blender

(h/t Gizmodo)

Asteroids Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score

Well, to us database geeks, that is…

MySQL’s New Best Friend Forever? Oracle

Count me among those who thought Oracle’s acquisition of Sun would spell doom for MySQL. it may have a place in Oracle’s grand strategy after all…

NASA Mission Posters Are Hilariously Painful

Be sure to see the entire catalog at NASA’s Space Flight Awareness page…