Links for 08-08-2012

• Google and Oracle ordered to disclose bloggers and journalists they paid to influence coverage (update) | The Verge - Headline bit inflammatory. But the judge's disclosure order wrt bloggers, journalists, etc. in Google-Oracle seems big
• Inside NASA’s Curiosity: It’s an Apple Airport Extreme… with wheels | ExtremeTech - RT @Krewell: If you're interested in the Mars Curiosity's engineering, this is a good read:
• Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror - YouTube - Pretty amazing video of the Curiosity landing sequence.
• Apache Deltacloud Hits Open Source Cloud Server Milestone - RT @TechJournalist: Apache Deltacloud Hits Open Source Cloud Server Milestone - Server Watch
• What Happened To the Long Tail? - "For Shanks, the loss of physical shelf space, the proliferation of titles online, and growth of e-books sales means the promise of the long tail for print books has been permanently altered. “There is a long tail, but it is so long the units are small.”"
• Red Hat | The Deltacloud Project Reaches 1.0 - Apache Deltacloud Project reaches 1.0. By me.
• NoiseTrade | Thousands of Albums. Completely Free. Completely Legal.
• Connections: Mobile ticketing. Good news but better have good IT. - Mobile ticketing. Good news but better have good IT.
• The Many Mysteries of The Dark Knight Rises - Howzzit? - SPOILERS. The only piece I've read which makes me (slightly) doubt the majority opinion about what happened.