Links for 01-08-2014

• Red Hat embraces adjacent ecosystem CentOS - Open Source Insider - RT @EMEACloudGuy: Great article - covers the podcast too - thanks @ABridgwater for the write up - #redhat #CentOS
• Evgeny Morozov: Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution : The New Yorker
• Create a new browser user profile - Chrome Help - Aha. Finally. This is how to stop Google Chrome from crashing every time I start it.
• i, quaid / Red Hat and CentOS joining forces - RT @lcafiero: Of all the reports about #CentOS and #redhat, #quaid's is the best -- congrats all around!
• George R.R. Martin reveals his ‘Game of Thrones’ backup ending - Zap2it - "I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way," he explains. "That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring."
• Red Hat + CentOS — Red Hat Open Source Community - I'd encourage folks interested in the Red Hat/CentOS announcement to read the FAQ. It goes into a lot of subtleties.
• Red Hat | Red Hat and the CentOS Project Join Forces to Speed Open Source Innovation - RT @RedHatNews: Big news: Red Hat & the CentOS Project Join Forces to Speed Open Source Innovation #redhat #centos #linux #opensource
• BBC - Future - Science & Environment - Timeline of the far future
• How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com
• The slow but inevitable decline of Netflix’s DVD business — Tech News and Analysis - It's a bit hard for me to believe that physical DVD rental as a business just goes away entirely--at least until streaming availability improves a lot.
• Netflix’s dumbed-down algorithms | Felix Salmon - Interesting counterpoint to the Netflix recommendation engine praise.
• Is there a best Linux file system? | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog - RT @RedHatNews: New #RHEL blog: Is there a best Linux file system?: Is there a best anything? Perhaps. I, personally, t... #Linux
• Netflix’s Cloud Architect Adrian Cockcroft left to join Battery Ventures — Tech News and Analysis - RT @a_perilli: Netflix’s Cloud Architect Adrian Cockcroft is leaving to join Battery Ventures: > Congrats @adrianco !