Flagged Links #55
"Facing off against IBM's 'Jeopardy!' computer" - The next step since "Deep Blue"?
"Changing Windows Service Runtime Behavior with Typemock Isolator" - A very cool usage of TypeMock other than in a testing scenario.
"Quarter Shrinker" - Using electricity for monetary changes.
"Zero Punctuation: Prototype" and "Zero Punctuation: The Sims 3" - A double serving of Zero love.
"Halo 3 Fails: Episode 22" and "Halo 3 Fails: Episode 23" - Overfail.
"Building Tuple" - Tuples are nice if the language supports them. This article has some great insight into the design of what seems to be a fairly easy type to implement.
"IKVM.Reflection.Emit Update" - I might be playing with this library soon.
"Concurrency and exceptions" - A good write-up of how to handle exceptions in concurrent situations.
"Musical Archaeology with Mathematica" - Quite the interesting usage of Mathematica: figure out a song from a picture.