How interesting – and obscure – but Amazon is just offering a Queue Service
You can queue up to 4,000 msgs of up to 4096 bytes during the beta period.
It offers the following operations

CreateQueue
ListMyQueues
DeleteQueue
ConfigureQueue
Enqueue
Read
Dequeue

How will this be uses and what’s the intent? Maybe to coordinate among distrubuted and cooperating web services.
What’s interesting is Amazon is seemingly […]

A strange structure in the ocean. Click to enlarge, then click on it again for a bigger one.

And here’s a variation after making a “bug fix” and a couple of small changes.

I just figured out one way of doing water – I was inspired by this fragment from caustic.pov in the POV distribution.

// The water […]