April 2008Monthly Archives

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Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.

Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid conducted a poll a few years back of the music people hated the most. And they’ve compiled all of that, and much, much more that into a single 23-minute long song odyssey of sonic suck.

I love this man’s books (Round Ireland with a Fridge & Playing the Moldavians at Tennis are brilliant), & everything I have seen from him makes me hysterical. His response to people confusing him with some skateboarding type are particularly hysterical:)

TwittEarth brings every Tweet for which it can find a geo-location to life on a screen-sized model of Earth, complete with snazzy lighting effects (dormant, from what we can gather). Each tweet is represented by a bite-sized graphical creature/avatar

Oh, poor Eee PC 900. You haven’t even made it into most people’s hands, and already you’re getting dissected and inappropriately inspected. Lol. Reference to Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie – much love!

A wave of food-price inflation is moving through the world, leaving riots and shaken governments in its wake. For the first time in 30 years, food protests are erupting in many places at once.

World cereal stocks are at an all-time low, food-aid programmes have run out of money and millions face starvation. Yet wealthy countries persist with plans to use grain for petrol.

That anger is palpable across the globe. The food crisis is not only being felt among the poor but is also eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discontent and putting new pressures on fragile governments.

[the movie] is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry.Positing the theory of intelligent design as a valid scientific hypothesis, the film frames the refusal of “big science” to agree as nothing less than an assault on free spe

The US space agency hopes to build moon bases that can house astronauts for stays of up to six months, with an intricate transportation and power system,

Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. Funny!

“Ok, so when you sing this, you need to also say in a loud whisper “Cool Cool Tux” in rhythm with the Stomp Stomp Clap… hehh hehhh… Ok I did this in fun, and it’s not meant to start any fist fights. Or worse. “

In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company.

Switching to Linux can be very daunting. However, the Linux community has excelled in making the switch for beginners as easy as possible by providing guides, howtos, tweaks, and general advocacy articles.

If the default distro doesn’t work out for you and you don’t feel like using the Xubuntu made for the EEE, you have another option: Puppeee. It is based on Puppy Linux, a distro written for ease of use and efficiency.

Sometimes you need to send a text message, but you forgot your phone, or you have poor cell reception, so what can you do? Or you just prefer the comfort of the full keyboard to the crammed one on your phone?

Last night David Tennant returned to the small screen as Doctor Who. The 36-year-old is considered by many viewers to be the best incarnation yet. Far from milking his celebrity, though, he hardly ever speaks to the press – so a rare interview:) dreamy:)

The London Science Museum finally completed work on the Victorian era’s greatest supercomputer, the Difference Engine No. 2, 120 years after the death of inventor Charles Babbage. SQUEEEEEEEE!! glee!!!!!!

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) [Linux distro] on desktop and server. “Hardy Heron” continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies.

According to Pixmania.com’s research, the speedy growth of consumer electronics and associated buzzwords and acronyms has created the “fastest growing language” in Europe. What exactly is this “nerdic”?

“The first hour of last night’s debate was a 60 minute master class in questions that elevate out-of-context remarks and trivial, insipid miscues into subjects of natural discourse”. This rocks!!!!

a k9 gingerbread!!! nd lins to gingerbread tardis. be warned, peoples, i SHALL be doing it:) fishmass time, you wait!

NASA celebrates half a century of American spaceflight with a new collection of space exploration images. And this has made my year. So very very VERY cool:)

the pro-Linux crowd of 200-plus were worried that now, with Sun in charge of MySQL, Sun’s focus would be on creating a SAMP (Solaris, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) software ecosystem instead of supporting LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python)

The real OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta is due April 30. With any version, you are welcome and encouraged to test to find and report bugs and to discover new features. The stable OpenOffice.org 3.0 release is still due September 2008.

ESA’s Mars Express radar sounder, MARSIS, has looked beneath the martian surface and opened up the third dimension for planetary exploration.

Vinton G Cerf, Vice-President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, delivered the Inaugural Information Technologists’ Lecture at City University London on Monday 14 April 2008.

Less than two months into Sun Microsystems’ MySQL acquisition, Sun has succeeded in upsetting the grassroots types with plans to close off features to the community.

These brave few achieve greatness and then top it off by kicking the bucket in a way so ridiculously implausible that people would have talked about them for years even if they hadn’t done anything else.

digg, now on twitter, causing a massive implosion of the social universe.

Contains Darwin’s complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts & the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published;also hundreds of supplementary works:biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works & more.

Thanks to our friends over at Facebook, you can now import your dugg stories directly into your mini-feed (no application needed). Simply visit your profile, find your mini-feed, click on the ‘import’ link, and enter your Digg username.Meep. More digg

“That is the moment I became part of Facebook’s fastest-growing problem: application overload, a.k.a. Facebook fatigue. ” Me, i just blanket refuse ALL app requests, thus saving time:)

Here is New Scientist’s guide to some of the most common myths and misconceptions about evolution. Must read, especially for those guys who put the ‘id’ in idiot, the creationists.

Expelled claims to present problems with evolution that means somehow that intelligent design is valid.has some problems of its own with honest, open presentations of the facts about evolution, ID—and with its own agenda. Here are a few examples.

Hackett and Bankwell is an educational comic designed to teach the finer points of the GNU Linux platform using Ubuntu.

It’s like this: if you found yourself all giddy playing with the Eee PC 701, you’ll be absolutely enthralled when handling the 900. At least, that’s the verdict being blasted out from reviewers web-wide. And I am giddy, yes!

This is one of those articles where title literally says it all. If you’re familiar with Digg Spy – Digg’s cool tool for displaying new stories as they show up on the site in real time, you’ll know what Twitterspy is about.

Fring, the VoIP client that integrates with various VoIP networks including the ubiquitous Skype, is now available for the iPhone – providing exactly the kind of application that Steve Jobs stated wouldn’t be allowed. Worksgreat on my nokia navigator too

A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.

oh please oh please oh please!!! besides basic which doesn’t really count, ada was my first real language. it is verbose, and not for everyone, but i would KILL (sort of, ok, maim) to be doing things with it again. just not in defece industry not my bag.

As Citrix tells it, however, the company is more serious about desktop virtualization than ever and will use a new product called XenDesktop to help it ship full-on client rapture down to PCs and thin clients.

Asus now offers Eee PC buyers a choice between Linux and Windows. So just how good (or how bad) is the little laptop when it comes pre-loaded with XP? My baby, he stays linux!!!

At LugRadio Live yesterday in San Francisco, Google developer and Linux kernel contributor Robert Love gave a presentation about the open source Android mobile phone operating system and software development kit.

Recently, a trove of legal proceedings and assorted arcana was unearthed regarding demi-human protests to the upcoming 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons release.

The films selected here are not always 100% accurate but are the best of all movies of this genre for being as accurate as possible; do not expect to see the Knight’s Tale here. LOL!

After weeks of voting, these are the 10 top revenge photos from those who won’t kowtow to our future overlords.

Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth has been telling Reuters that Sun is in the process of certifying Ubuntu on some of its low-end and mid-size hardware. The code it’s certifying is Hardy Heron, the Ubuntu 8.04 rev that’s due out later this month

This rocks!!!!!

From Icehotel to the Astronomers Inn, the world’s best science-themed hotels and restaurants

@answerme is a little tool to help you track questions you ask on Twitter. Imagine Yahoo! Answers lite built on Twitter and you’ve got a good idea of what we’re doin’ here.

A BIZARRE internet prank centred on 1980′s singer Rick Astley has been re-enacted by up to 500 people in a crowded train station.