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The world’s top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.
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this is – funny as hell, weird as hell, and perfect, thanks abs:)
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wow! this stuff is amazing!!
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Wind River is joining Intel to develop an open source Linux platform to your car and shake up the auto industry by bringing greater innovation, efficiency and development speed to the emerging in-car infotainment market.
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Unfortunately, sometimes things have a nasty habit of actually getting broken in post-production, usually thanks to studio interference.
Victims include …
May 2008Monthly Archives
links for 2008-05-26
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with…
…its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam…
Keith Olbermann comments on Hillary Clinton’s commenting on the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, as relating to the current campaign. Seriously. She bought assassination into it. Really. I have watched it again and again, trying to make sense of why she would say this. All I can think is, this woman has gotten desperate and frightening. Why would anyone elect someone like this?
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links for 2008-05-24
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Microsoft’s new advertising scheme is clever but fatally flawed. Somebody better tell Yahoo.
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All the text on the web becomes richly interactive: Select any word on any page and choose a command. Just amazing:)
Political correctness is the natural continuum…
…from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don’t seem to see this.
Personally, I see political correctness as committee madness – a good idea of tolerance and respect completely out of hand, with no humour or sense of proportion.
So, lets throw some of that back in the mix, shall we? And can I just say how much I pine for MST3K to return??? The world has no chance for peace, no happy puppies and kittens, no sunshiny smiles, until it returns. Or something.
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links for 2008-05-23
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CuteFlow is a web based open source document circulation and workflow system. Users are able to define “documents” which are send step by step to every station/user in a list.It’s an electronical way for doing (i.e. internal) document circulations.
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One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same
links for 2008-05-22
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uffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon told SCI FI Wire that he’s just about completed a nearly 40-minute online musical that he wrote and directed. The Web project stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion (Serenity) and Felicia Day. oh gods, YES!!
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BBC Wales and BBC Drama has announced that Bafta and Hugo Award winning writer Steven Moffat will succeed Russell T Davies as Lead Writer and Executive Producer of the fifth series of Doctor Who, which will broadcast on BBC One in 2010, YAY!
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It seems that some parents are either cruel or mad when they name their kids. Here are a few that are particularly strange:
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Google’s free online calendar makes it easy track your schedule from anywhere, but many of its best features lurk beneath the surface. Here’s how to handle Gcal like a pro.
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A spacecraft now completing a nine-month journey from Earth to Mars must survive a fiery, risky descent to the Red Planet to have a chance to scoop up water ice believed buried under an arctic plain.
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Today, a satellite was involved in your life. You did something that would have been impossible without an automated spacecraft orbiting hundreds of miles above your head. Here are the top ten you need to know, because they make modern life possible.
links for 2008-05-21
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surprisingly sfw!
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Now that Google Health has finally launched, I took a quick peek at it. At first glance it looks like it will be a strong competitor to existing personal health sites such as Microsoft’s HealthVault , Revolution Health, or Aetna’s SmartSource
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Firefox 3 is noticeably faster and more stable than Firefox 2 to the casual user and Mozilla engineers have numbers that show it will be the fastest browser on the market.
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This week we tackle vestigial organs in a feature article that looks at how the idea has changed over the years, and how it has come under attack from creationists anxious to deny that vestigial organs (and hence evolution) exist at all.
links for 2008-05-20
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The internet is responsible for many terrible things, which the world tolerates as long as these terrible things stay on the internet. But some internet memes become so popular they spill out and infect the real world…
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“Here are some of few linux desktop look [I] really liked, because of their creativity and uniqueness. They are not necessarily the most beautiful, but they are certainly very unconventional.”
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Businesses, educational institutions, governmental agencies & other organizations around the world are converting1 their operating systems from Microsoft to Linux at an increasing pace. There are at least 25 reasons for this situation, including:
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They’re in charge, and backed up with legions of flunkies – the ten most despicable despots of science-fiction! Meh, The Master has no flunkies – or does he???
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We figured you might be tracking the conversations about Google Friend Connect and Facebook. We want to help you understand a bit more about how it works on the Friend Connect side with respect to users’ informatio
links for 2008-05-18
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Peering beneath the ice at the north pole of Mars has now revealed the red planet may be surprisingly colder than was thought.
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Ubuntu is the top distro on DistroWatch (again, just meaning there’s a lot of interest in it—not necessarily that the largest number of Linux users are choosing it over other distros). How did this come to pass?
I can believe anything…
…provided it is incredible.
Terry Pratchett writes some of the funniest books ever. The Discworld series is utter genius. One of the things that makes them so brilliant is that they aren’t just incredibly, wittily, ridiculously funny, they are searingly, bitingly observant. I give you an excerpt from Hogfather:
Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They’re not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what’s the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?
