Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK

Visual Studio 2010 shipped!
if you haven't heard.

Handling Money Could Bring Pain Relief

DUH... this just confirms what has been found in other studies and people that can actually run long distances or do anything painful, like myself, already know. If you can trick your mind into thinking of something positive during the pain it won't be that obvious you can withstand more!
Handling Money Could Bring Pain Relief

Java is Toast

Well if it wasn't before it surely is now:
“Father of Java” Resigns from Sun/Oracle
This is like Guido stopping work on Python or Linus on Linux.
Sure it might survive but it'll never be the same :(

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

So if you've spent a ton of sweat and tears learning Objective-C, as I have, it is all for naught...
(And, in one sense, this is good news for existing iPhone developers: their skill set is now in even greater demand.)

Shining some more light on what the iPad hype is all about

Another article for those that just don't get the iPad hype:
iPad: The First Real Family Computer

The organism which must not be named!

Pretty cool if you are into biology or the origins of life, etc:
The organisms themselves, none of which have been named yet...
. That makes these creatures the first animals ever discovered that spend their whole lives without oxygen.

Farewell, Keyboard - Generation I Will Grow Up on Touchscreens

This is what the future the iPad ushers in!