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Imagine a solar panel without the panel. Just a coating, thin as a layer of paint, that takes light and converts it to electricity.
December 2007Monthly Archives
links for 2007-12-30
With our thoughts…
…we shape the world.
Watch this. I couldn find a flaw in this manś compelling argument. I challenge you. Go on. I dare you. Double dare. Whatever it takes to get you to watch.
You see, he asks a question at the very end – and I cannot answer it at all positively.
If you can´t view embedded, please go here.
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It’s practically impossible to look at a penguin…
…and feel angry.
Penguin gets promoted in Norwegian Navy. Seriously.
The penguin in question, the delightfully named Nils Olav, was promoted on Wednesday to Colonel in Chief of the Royal Norwegian Guard.
Some days, my joy knows no bounds. What a delightful world we live in:)
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links for 2007-12-29
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Google engineer has a chainmail hobby – guess what he makes.
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references in this blog to the cost of the Iraq “war” being 11 million dollars every hour. That’s a gross, vast amount of money. And it turns out it’s wrong: it’s too low. The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are closer to 20 million dollar
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PJ of groklaw has got her very own OLPC – some fun is had:)
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Nils Olav received a promotion on Wednesday to Colonel in Chief of the Royal Norwegian Guard. Yes, this high rank in the Norwegian military has in fact been bestowed on a penguin.
links for 2007-12-28
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One of the things that has been a strong point of Open Source Software (OSS) for years, even if it hasn’t been held at the forefront of the battle, is the flexibility that OSS offers.
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Welcome to the first annual Wired News rundown of the year’s 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. 2007 was an amazing year for science.
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The Economist makes three technology predictions for 2008, two of which concern web surfing and the third of which concerns everyone, whether they surf the web or not. The Economist’s third prediction is that the technology world will open up.
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Microsoft just rolled out the first publicly available release candidate for Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista, and we snapped it up, eager to see if it’s faster than the currently shipping version of Vista.
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five factors that contribute to the decline and fall of a civilisation, as a chart.
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Firefox 3 Beta 2 shows some nifty new tools we can expect in Mozilla’s next browser
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How to install Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy” on the EeePC
links for 2007-12-27
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This is about those movies that were phenomenal yet hardly anyone saw, so now we’re giving them one final moment in the spotlight.
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Warning: You should proceed with caution using this Howto, if you do not know what you are doing you could damage your relationship with Friend 2.0 or totally break it.
links for 2007-12-26
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If there are fifty ways to leave your lover, surely there are at least a few methods to make miserable and humiliating the life of your arch-nemesis with the aid of gadgets.
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They were going to CHANGE EVERYTHING. Whoops. presenting five biggest technology disappointments of the past year. No, not Vista and the Kindle — you didn’t expect anything there.
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yum. want!
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tech gets more and more interesting!
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modem being handed out by vodaphone and 3 mobile, eeepc compatoble, supposedly…
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Trick out your new (Xmas) rig with our favorite system tweaks and downloads for Windows XP, Vista, Mac, and Linux.
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Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project 6 mths ago
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GNOME or KDE? Because we here at Download Squad value our lives, we’re not going to tell you which is the best. What matters is what works best for you. That’s why we’re spending this week and next discussing the virtues and pitfalls of GNOME and KDE.
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It seems like every blog on the internet has one of these, so here’s one blog’s picks for the top 20 Linux applications.
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talking about amaroK, the free, open source music player, currently only for Linux and Unix, but soon to be available for Windows and Mac OS X. Damn, I love amarok:)
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The directory structure of Linux/other Unix-like systems is very intimidating for the new user, especially if he/she is migrating from Windows. This article actually helps explain it all:)
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Firefox 3 Beta 2 in Ubuntu 7.10. usefull, as the gutsy beta is flaky
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The release schedule for KDE 4 is now clear, and it will be released during the development cycle of Kubuntu 8.04.
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Once every year, Wired News compiles a list of the most entertaining tech-centric misstatements and verbal foibles from government officials, CEOs and tech luminaries.
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an international team of astronomers has figured out just what alien eyes might see using the increasingly sophisticated technologies being developed on Earth.
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a team of researchers has announced that temperature fluctuations in the glow clash with one well-accepted theory of how the universe formed. The preliminary findings could change cosmologists’ understanding of the moments just after the big bang.
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Nanosolar shipped its first solar panels — priced at $1 a watt. That’s the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. Curious that this story is not on every front page.
Yes, Virginia…
…there is a Santa Claus.
Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897.
“DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’
Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?”
VIRGINIA O’HANLON.
115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
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links for 2007-12-24
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want. maybe when i grow up.
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories…
…and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
Merry whatever you celebrate people. I personally keep this time of year as a time to let the kidlets have a blast[1]. So have a good one, and stay safe.
And for my wonderful Richard : Geeks at Xmas. Santa came early this year in bringing you to me!
[1] Family is for everyday, not one day a year.
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