Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. –Eric Raymond

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. – Tom Stoppard, Artist Descending A Staircase

Gizmodo reviews the new Wacom Cintiq 12WX LCD tablet, and it looks slick.

Ben Fry has a beautiful set of images and prints of Atari 2600 game code and data segments. The images show the code, the jump maps, and data blobs used by the games. The prints are based on his dismap project.

Here’s a great set of articles showing off the new features in Php 5.3: Part 1, 2, 3, 4. It’s fun to watch languages evolve.

Midori is a Webkit-based browser for Gnome. It’s new, and the artwork is a bit weird, but it means that other Webkit-esque browsers are coming. Yay.

Scoble hits the nail on the head talking about Moguls, the serverless internet company:

How did Microsoft screw this up so badly? Let’s get this straight. Amazon used to be a book store. Now they are hosting virtualized servers for Internet companies. So much for having billions of dollars in the bank like Microsoft does, some of the smartest people in the world working in your research arms and having “monopoly” market share in operating systems.

Fog Creek’s new sites slide into the painful state of design by “a committee of tasteless slobs,” a condition to be aware of, and run screaming from when encountered. The Fog Creek guys started over again, gaining sanity and a cleaner, honest design.

Another release of the e-Editor for Windows. This release (1.0.4) includes: split screen, tab reordering, faster startup, and more.

Here’s a short article about a machine learning project written in pygame. It’s an interesting approach with some intriguing possibilities (yes, I’m tempted).