links for 2006-07-15

“Wow, the E6700 is amazing. It outperforms the FX-62 at half the price and half the power consumption. It’s a good time to be a computer geek.”

DIY from a friend of a friend. Very cool.

Analyze a Flickr photostream for all sorts of interesting data.

Scoble’s take on the Conroe/Core 2 Duo launch.

Engadget’s take on Conroe’s launch.

It’s like a web app version of Photoshop. Histograms and graduation, crop, rotate, all the fun stuff.

Open, collaborative, Mechanical-Turk style translation of WordPress – just pop in, translate a sentence or two, and that’s it.

“In all, Core 2 is a strong, well-balanced processor that has everything going for it. This is Intel’s first unqualified home-run in a while, and I think computing enthusiasts everywhere should thank their lucky stars that the Intel-AMD race is now back o

“After years of wandering in the wilderness, Intel has recaptured the desktop CPU performance title in dramatic fashion.”

“Core 2 Duo spanks similarly priced Athlons. In fact, the $316 2.4GHz E6600 is faster than AMD’s $1000 FX-62.”

“We test Intel’s Core 2 Duo and Extreme using real-world gaming. Don’t let a bunch of canned benchmarks lie to you about gaming performance, real gameplay experience tells a different story. Unless of course you game at 800×600.”