PS3 jumps to Folding@home teraflop lead

Holy cannoli, look at this. The Playstation 3 software to allow people to run Folding@Home on their PS3s is barely out to the public, and it's already kicking all other OSes ass at least as far as teraflops is concerned. Pretty amazing.

Folding@Home OS stats

PS3 feeding Folding

Another quick interesting pass-along; the Sony PS3 will be adding a Folding@Home client for those people who want to help a distributed computing effort to cure disease, while also running their PS3 24/7 with the concomitant energy drain and risk of overheating.

Sony Reveals Folding@Home PS3 Details

Bill Gates is snippy

Not sure why, of all the blog postings I've seen in the past week or two, I choose THIS one to pass along, but I just found it interesting that Gates is so... what? Touchy? Snippy? Devoid of humor?

AdAge asks Gates about Hodgman to ill effect

Little Big Planet

Two big Sony announcements yesterday at the Game Developer's Conference. One was something called PlayStation Home, and it looked moderately interesting--kind of Second Life meets Miis meets XBox achievements. It really does make Miis look pretty sickly in comparison, and even Second Life graphics.

But the thing that really freaked me out was Little Big Planet. Oh. My. God. It's hilarious that a dopey little puzzle game with little rag doll puppet things running around makes me want to get a $600 PS3. Resistance sure didn't and flOw doesn't, but this does. Man, I just realized something... would it be cool to see a next-gen Katamari Damacy with that level of detail and physics modeling!

Anyhow, here's a link to the Kotaku link to the video. I've subscribed to GameSpot finally and downloaded the high-def clip and man does it look great, but this will give you an idea.

Kotaku post on Little Big Planet.

Yep, Lost has lost it for me

Here's how little I cared about Lost: when I fired up my MythTV DVR to watch something while on the treadmill, over the last week I chose multiple episodes of The Daily Show, Iron Chef America, and even blinkin' Yu-Gi-Oh G/X, than watch Lost.

Today, I was out of other stuff to watch, so I decided to watch last week's episode ("Tricia Tanaka is Dead" or whatever it was). Once the meteor hit the restaurant, I stopped it and deleted it on the spot. Not only is Tricia Tanaka dead, so is Lost, at least to me.

360tan is kawaii

Saw this posted on Kotaku and thought it was pretty funny... I liked the little digs at the 360's weight and overheating issues. And the art is kawaii. And the comment about the shadows was hilarious. PS: happy birthday to me!

360-tan translated (from Kotaku)