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Deep, Wide, Serious and Crazy

That's not the title to a new track from Petey Pablo. It's how this unconfernece is billed in terms of the Intel AppUp Center. As agendas go, the mix and makeup of the unconference gives an indication that this has a very serious side to balance the gaming and celebrity elements.

During the entire event an Open Lab will make hardware available for development projects. Yes. You can just hole up with other people and just hack away if you want to. Punch and pie are on the agenda.

(note: I'll be bringing my sacrificial HP Mini 1000 with Ubuntu Remix and Moblin thumb drive(s) for dd of the images du jour and anything I can try short of bricking it)

Developer platforms covered will include mobile devices for handheld gaming and netbooks. Talks will span a wide array of topics such Adobe Air, Windows C/C++, .NET and MeeGo but will also extend to areas many developers are increasingly focused on -- cash (not cache):

• Making Money as an ISV



• Generating Revnue from Advertising



• Monetizing and Community



• Merchandising

Be sure to come back to ReadWriteHack on Thursday for coverage of the Intel AppUp Elements 2010 unconference.

• AppUp Elements Day 1 (morning)



• AppUp Elements Day 2 (afternoon)

If there are topics you are interested in hearing more about from the event and you are unable to attend please leave your questions in the comments below!

Disclosure: Intel is a sponsor of ReadWriteWeb.

The late Rep.
John (Jack) Murtha (D-Penn.) was the earmark king, a politician who
didn't stint on dragging federally funded pork to his district in
the Keystone State under any and all pretenses. Channeling O.J.
Simpson, who once said that if he had killed his ex-wife,
it was only because he loved her too much, Murtha actually uttered,
"If I’m a little corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district."
Boy, that's public spiritedness, ain't it?

Murtha's legacy of shameless spending on crap nobody needed and
we all paid for via taxes lives on even though the
unindicted co-conspirator in ABSCAM lies full-fathom five. His
successor, Rep. Mark Critz, is seeing to that by earmarking $10
million in a defense-funding bill for the John P. Murtha
Center for Public Service at the University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown. Given that this piece of junk is in a defense bill, it's
supposed to have something to do with, well, defense. But that's
baloney, too.

Wired's Noah Shachtman explains:

The 30,000 square-foot Center will primarily serve as a
scholarly debating forum for policy issues and a repository for
Murtha’s papers. But wait, you ask. How does the Murtha Center
relate to the Department of Defense? Oh, it’ll inspire “students
and the general public to become active in our communities, the
military, and in public service.” See? Military applicability.

Schactman
continues,

Murtha is hardly the only deceased legislator to be posthumously
honored with your money. Last year, Congress also added $10 million
to the defense bill to build an Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the
United States Senate at the University of Massachusetts. The
Kennedy Institute didn’t even pretend to have a military
application, but that did absolutely nothing to derail the
earmark.

More here.

And people wonder why the Tea Party is doing swell and
milquetoast establishment centrist candidates such as Mike Castle
of Delaware are getting their asses kicked finally? The earmarks
above are more than annoying. Given the military trappings of the
funding sources, they're obscene. We've got an army that was in
recent memory sent to actual wars without proper equipment (can
anyone forget Donald Rumsfeld's grotesque hand-washing of
responsibility for properly outfitting the military in Afghanistan
and Iraq?). And yet we're capable of building million-dollar
sarcophaguses to fat dead old men?

Screw you, buddy, I sez! Suddenly, Christine O'Donnell's
anti-masturbation views are making more and more sense, especially
if she keeps her pledge not to jerk off taxpayers like the bums
currently pounding the pork in D.C.

Check out Reason.tv's Porker of the Month series, done with
Citizens Against Government Waste:

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Deep, Wide, Serious and Crazy

That's not the title to a new track from Petey Pablo. It's how this unconfernece is billed in terms of the Intel AppUp Center. As agendas go, the mix and makeup of the unconference gives an indication that this has a very serious side to balance the gaming and celebrity elements.

During the entire event an Open Lab will make hardware available for development projects. Yes. You can just hole up with other people and just hack away if you want to. Punch and pie are on the agenda.

(note: I'll be bringing my sacrificial HP Mini 1000 with Ubuntu Remix and Moblin thumb drive(s) for dd of the images du jour and anything I can try short of bricking it)

Developer platforms covered will include mobile devices for handheld gaming and netbooks. Talks will span a wide array of topics such Adobe Air, Windows C/C++, .NET and MeeGo but will also extend to areas many developers are increasingly focused on -- cash (not cache):

• Making Money as an ISV



• Generating Revnue from Advertising



• Monetizing and Community



• Merchandising

Be sure to come back to ReadWriteHack on Thursday for coverage of the Intel AppUp Elements 2010 unconference.

• AppUp Elements Day 1 (morning)



• AppUp Elements Day 2 (afternoon)

If there are topics you are interested in hearing more about from the event and you are unable to attend please leave your questions in the comments below!

Disclosure: Intel is a sponsor of ReadWriteWeb.

The late Rep.
John (Jack) Murtha (D-Penn.) was the earmark king, a politician who
didn't stint on dragging federally funded pork to his district in
the Keystone State under any and all pretenses. Channeling O.J.
Simpson, who once said that if he had killed his ex-wife,
it was only because he loved her too much, Murtha actually uttered,
"If I’m a little corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district."
Boy, that's public spiritedness, ain't it?

Murtha's legacy of shameless spending on crap nobody needed and
we all paid for via taxes lives on even though the
unindicted co-conspirator in ABSCAM lies full-fathom five. His
successor, Rep. Mark Critz, is seeing to that by earmarking $10
million in a defense-funding bill for the John P. Murtha
Center for Public Service at the University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown. Given that this piece of junk is in a defense bill, it's
supposed to have something to do with, well, defense. But that's
baloney, too.

Wired's Noah Shachtman explains:

The 30,000 square-foot Center will primarily serve as a
scholarly debating forum for policy issues and a repository for
Murtha’s papers. But wait, you ask. How does the Murtha Center
relate to the Department of Defense? Oh, it’ll inspire “students
and the general public to become active in our communities, the
military, and in public service.” See? Military applicability.

Schactman
continues,

Murtha is hardly the only deceased legislator to be posthumously
honored with your money. Last year, Congress also added $10 million
to the defense bill to build an Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the
United States Senate at the University of Massachusetts. The
Kennedy Institute didn’t even pretend to have a military
application, but that did absolutely nothing to derail the
earmark.

More here.

And people wonder why the Tea Party is doing swell and
milquetoast establishment centrist candidates such as Mike Castle
of Delaware are getting their asses kicked finally? The earmarks
above are more than annoying. Given the military trappings of the
funding sources, they're obscene. We've got an army that was in
recent memory sent to actual wars without proper equipment (can
anyone forget Donald Rumsfeld's grotesque hand-washing of
responsibility for properly outfitting the military in Afghanistan
and Iraq?). And yet we're capable of building million-dollar
sarcophaguses to fat dead old men?

Screw you, buddy, I sez! Suddenly, Christine O'Donnell's
anti-masturbation views are making more and more sense, especially
if she keeps her pledge not to jerk off taxpayers like the bums
currently pounding the pork in D.C.

Check out Reason.tv's Porker of the Month series, done with
Citizens Against Government Waste:

Blizzard dates Cataclysm launch as December 7 | <b>News</b>

Blizzard Entertainment has finally lifted the lid on plans for the launch of World of Warcraft's latest expansion - Catac...

Sea Ice <b>News</b> – delayed a day – but still something interesting <b>...</b>

It makes good news right now because of the nice 15 year trend down, which is actually a 30 year trend down. The problem is that our satellite data for the sea ice extent started in 1979 (for the whole year at least). ...

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