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Brilliant review, witty and informative
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Useful resource
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Gaia is “an attempt to reverse engineer Google Earth and implement its functionality in open, portable, customizable and [extensible] way”.
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The how its made series, with bonus links to other beery goodness:)
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A “Wikipedia CD” has been made available for download on BitTorrent.com. The CD comprises of over 2500 hand-picked educational articles aimed at helping schools enhance their curriculum and children learn.
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some good links here.
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Now, that didnt take long:)
November 2006Monthly Archives
links for 2006-11-25
The first casualty when war comes…
…is truth.
“Pat Tillman was a former NFL football player who joined the U.S. Army Rangers in 2002. When he was killed in Afghanistan in 2004, the Pentagon and the Bush regime seized on his death to build patriotic support for the war, and military and political officials appeared with the Tillman family at the funeral. But the official story released to the press and told to the Tillman family—that Pat had been killed by “enemy fire”—was a lie. In fact he had been killed by “friendly fire” from Rangers in his own unit. After the Tillman family continued to press for the truth the Army finally released thousands of pages of heavily censored documents on their investigations, which have allowed the family and reporters to piece together some of what occurred.“
On July of 2006, ESPN.com ran a 3-part series about the death of Pat Tillman which revealed how military officials have attacked the Tillman Family for Pursuing the Truth… and Not Being Christians. Accused of wanting the truth about the death of your son and brother only because, atheists, you ‘can’t feel closure’, is obscene. Those involved should be hauled over the coals, lose their rank and position, and be forced to publically apologise. All the way up to the top.
And on a footnote to that appalling story, as of tomorrow, the Americans have fought the war in Iraq Iraq for longer than they fought in World War II.
The Linux philosophy is…
…’laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong one. ‘Do it yourself’. That’s it.
SO, I am laughing at Microsoft. Today’s news on the hideous alliance with Novell.
Microsoft patent deal could leave Novell behind
Good news for Linux: Microsoft, Novell pact in trouble
Groklaw – What’s the Difference Between that 2004 Sun-MS Agreement and Novell’s?
Slashdot | Trusted or Treacherous Computing?
Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Welcome, OpenSUSE developers!
Murder may pass unpunish’d for a time…
…but tardy justice will o’ertake the crime.
Wow. The amazing thing about his is just how damned CLUMSY and OBVIOUS the KGB, and one quite easily can assume, Putin himself, have been. I mean, c’mon fellas, you expect us to believe your innocence? Putin might as well be standing there with a smoking gun and stating “I didn’t shoot noone.” Polonium-210 one of world’s rarest elements – and guess where it is mainly found and used?
This is a terrible injustice and murder of an outspoken critic of the Putin Regime.
Only our individual faith in freedom…
…can keep us free.
This is stunningly outrageous! Teens try to thwart the Military attemtping to recruit high school kids – and they have to fight the school to do it???!!!!
Teens Frustrate Military Recruiter’s ASVAB Scam – by Scott Horton
From the article : “Often administered under the guise of a career aptitude test, the ASVAB’s purpose is to better equip the State to prey on young people tricked or pressured into taking the test. According to Debbie Hopper of Mothers Against the Draft, it is often given under the pretext of being a “career placement” test.”
links for 2006-11-24
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How its made continues : Cheese!
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Cincinnati, OH–An advertising stunt dreamed up by a local Cincinnati radio station went terribly wrong when twenty live turkeys plummeted to their deaths after being dropped out of a helicopter under the misguided assumption that they would all just fly
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Funky facts about synesthasia – taste with sounds or sight – its a rare but intruiging condition about jumbled senses.
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Umm, get a good gel seat with space for bits – mens or womens models!
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Cool discussion
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Looks like time consuming fun and creativity!
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A lavishly illustrated “Atlas of Creation” is mysteriously turning up at schools and libraries in Turkey, proclaiming that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is the real root of terrorism. *sigh*
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Rebooting the Ecosystem
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golf in space!
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I have done this – Debian, admittedly, but wow, it was identical setup otherwise:)
Wardriving Using A Ubuntu Notebook With Garmin Etrex, Kismet, And GPSDrive
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Ruby on Rails just ROCKS! Yay!
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Visual IDEs for Linux!
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Didnt take long for this kind of info to get out there. yay community!
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This is nasty, cold war badness from the kgb. It has all the hallmarks of assassination.
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Turns out, technology isn’t turning our boys into drooling, violent zombies. The challenge is finding a balance in the digital reality that confronts them each day.
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Welcome to Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. As someone on Digg put it, Wikipedia’s evil twin:)
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Very very cool stuff!
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Wow, space travel seems delicious!
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A provocative but intetersting read. ‘There is a fundamental problem with GNU/Linux—it requires clueful people to exist in the IT food chain.’
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Cool if it happens! BICYCLE clubs are calling on the State Government to honour its commitment to open the first dedicated mountain bike park to the public by the end of the year.
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very very brilliant flash animation.
Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion…
…when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Oh, those whackjob fundamentalists who want to own our uterii are at it again, this time in Georgia, USA. A new bill that seeks to ban ALL abortions – no exceptions - is proposed by a rather revolting fundamentalist. Shakespeare’s Sister has an informed post by an impassioned and articulate person on this awful bill.
From the post : “This is House Bill 1 (or HB1, for short), and it was presented for prefile by Representative Bobby Franklin. This odious bill, if enacted into law, would impose a total ban on abortion in the state, one that rivals the South Dakota ban. This means no abortion even in the case of rape, incest, or detriment to the health of the mother, and for the life of me, I have scoured this bill, and it makes no mention of allowing for an abortion to save the life of the mother.”
Why do I think this guy is revolting? Because he is anotehr man trying to take away rights with a complete and utter disregard for anythign regarding facts. His use of much debunked by science claims of increased breast cancer, along with his breathtaking claim that abortion has robbed the state of workers, is just vile.
But it is a cold, lifeless business…
…when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith’s.
So take some time, choose something different and wonderful. Some Open Source fun gift ideas for your
MAKE: Blog: The Open source gift guide – Open source hardware, software and more for the holidays
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation…
…and yet not too good to be true.
Rare anti-female circumcision conference held
Including conservative Egyptian and other conservative relatively hardline Muslim scholars. Isn’t it great to see religion working for advancement and rights, instead of the usual oppressive or violence clash stories? Lets hope they can progress elimination of this appallingly cruel and awful practice.
And while we are seeing some advances – a sigh of finally! After decades of opposition, Vatican view on condoms begins to shift.
Are we seeing reason and enlightenment finally start to haul some awful dark age practices and beliefs into the light of rationality and human rights? Lets all hope so!
You light up…
…my life.
Ok, its hokey. But here is a chance ro spread light in the darkness of ignorance.
Just visit this site, Light To Unite, and using Flash, light a candle. Thats it. A dollar has been donated to HIV/AIDS research. Magic!
