Links for 01-05-2009

• Complete IT Conferences Calendar - Post your IT Events here - Pretty good IT conferences calendar.
• Technology Review: Parallel Universe - Parallel computing discussion/debate at Technology Review.
• Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple | Technology | guardian.co.uk - "It is constantly reinventing itself – five years ago, it was a computer company; today, it's a consumer products company that also makes computers."
• Intel Software Network Blogs » New Years Resolution: Back up your Home Data Regularly - Listen to Dale. Really!
• Cisco’s Misguided Foray Into the Living Room - A critical take on CIsco's entry into the consumer electronics business.
• Hoard It Like a Polaroid Picture | Culture11 - "This month marks the end of an era: the last month of the last production year of instant Polaroid film."
• EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect - "Newspapers were built on local advertising monopolies. The internet deprived them of those monopolies."
• 2008 S.F. Chronicle Geography Quiz - Cool geography quiz.
• Views From The Top - Forums for Northeast hiking.
• Who Has Time For This?: Tilera: "The Startup To Watch" - I should take a closer look at this after the holidays.
• Lightsphere Universal - I've been thinking of getting a flash diffuser.
• Design Observer: I Hate ITC Garamond - You probably have to be a bit of a font geek to appreciate this.
• The economics of moving from print to online: lose one hundred, get back eight | Monday Note - It's very hard to subsidize in a digital world.