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The European arm of the Hubble Space Telescope coordinating facility has just released a new image of the weird Comet 17/P Holmes, taken on November 4, almost two weeks after the comet suddenly expelled a huge quantity of dust
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For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer is cracking codes at Bletchley Park. That is incredibly cool!!!!
November 2007Monthly Archives
links for 2007-11-16
links for 2007-11-15
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Dvorak at his usal pithy acerbic fun best:)
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This is amazing and beautiful and i want to go there!!!
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damn, i never wanted ot be rich before!!!
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The Mobile Entertainment Growth Alliance (mEga|SA) is a South Australian initiative which builds the local mobile content and applications industry. Launched in 2006, it is a collaborative group comprised of industry, education and government bodies.
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useful tip for using a popular redhat tool on ubuntu
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If you think the Google Phone is all talk, you’re wrong: Here are eight technologies–GPS, multimedia, mobile Web browsing, gaming graphics, and more–which Open Handset Alliance members will bring to the upcoming mobile handset.
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WANT!!!
MEME. (pron. ‘meem’) A contagious idea that replicates like a virus…
…passed on from mind to mind.
At least one popular meme site, (oh, come on people, you know the one!), has decided to branch out: PENGUINS!!!!
Bonus points for those that know me irl, and why I would find this doubly amusing.
links for 2007-11-14
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Here you can find a growing community of individuals interested in the Android mobile platform created by Google. We have forums dedicated to software development discussion and to Android discussion in general.
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Chat about the google android cell phone operating system.
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Tutorial: Notepad Exercise 1
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The toolbox that is provided on the Android environment is pretty limited. Busybox to the rescue!
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First impressions matter, and as a developer you know that the first impression you get of a development framework is how easy it is to write “Hello, World!” Well, in Android, it’s pretty easy. Here’s how it looks:
links for 2007-11-13
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coolness:)
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Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.
The tyranny of an object…
…he thought. It doesn’t know I exist.
Someone will have to get that quote. Please, tell me someone gets that quote?:) Anyway, it’s the day of the Android. And, personally, it is a sexy, sexy day. In a totally weird, geeky, excited by something shiny way. Yeah, I know. Look, I didn’t once say nerdgasm, did I?
Anyway, to wrap so far:
Overview of Android. I found it totally interesting. Scoble didn’t.
Android site, including downloadable SDK.
Announcement of a $10 million dollar prize for developers.
Discussions on Slashdot and Digg.
Endgadget has more commentary, and a Visual Tour of the UI.
OHADev is a resource, non Google site for Android developers.
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself…
…who will end by leaving me nothing.
This post on Violent Acres, an acerbic, acidic, cruelly, passionately, viciously, defiantly honest funny sad bittersweet blog, has struck a chord today.
I hate that. Of course I do. I don’t want to be told what I know, just when I don’t want to know. Not, by the way, that she intends telling anyone anything. She has dropped it onto us, to do what we will with. Or not. Just deal, she says. Or not. It isn’t for us that she writes.
The alternative quote for the title was:
links for 2007-11-12
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oh, funny, for geeky types everywhere:)
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because i can never ever get enough of this:)
If you can’t feed a hundred people…
…then feed just one.
Like to play online games? Know your words? Want to extend your vocbulary?
Do it, and do it while you feed people. FreeRice is a word game that donates rice to the United Nations for every word you get right. So learn, and feed. Put your free time to good use!
links for 2007-11-11
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I actually wondered about this….
