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if you are a YouTube fan and would love to download some of the videos to your computer so that you may watch them again, without the need to visit the site again, then here are 4 quick ways to do that.
June 2008Monthly Archives
links for 2008-06-30
links for 2008-06-29
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NASA’s 23′x10′ grid of 128 LCDs, connected to 128 GPUs with a massive 74 teraflops of processing power. WANT
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The coolest video of a ball bearing dropped into fluidised sand you will see all day!
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We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy
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want want want want want want want want want *deep breath* want want want want want want.
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Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the delayed first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10, code name “Intrepid Ibex”. Must install.
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Interesting blog, good articles.
links for 2008-06-28
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MARTIAN dirt is apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said today, as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander.
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K-9, the robot dog from time traveling action-comedy Doctor Who, is finally getting his own TV show.
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New analysis of Mars’ terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system.
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Fascinating article, exciting stuff. Thanks richard:)
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wow. it does work. boradband, not dialup, though.
links for 2008-06-27
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utterly utterly magic:)
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One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe.There is a great deal of speculation on the subject, with different theories about how the universe began, and what may have existed before that.
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while missing some of my must haves – all in one sidebar, tiny menu, scribefire, twitterfox…this is a great list.
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Flock is the exception. Described as a social web browser, it contains tools to integrate with popular Web 2.0 websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and makes a great addition to your EEE.
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to install glibc 2.4 on the eee
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funny as hell:)
links for 2008-06-26
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The Door to Hell, as locals call it,in Uzbekistan. 35 years ago, geologists were drilling for gas when then encountered a very large cavern underground filled with a poisonous gas. They ignited the gas expecting it to burn off in a few hours. 35 yrs…
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Microsoft may have little choice but to support XP for an extended period since most of its business customers have not upgraded to Vista. In an unprecedented move, Microsoft has committed to providing support services for XP through 2014.
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You don’t start a company at age 21 and spend 33 years at it without making a few bonehead mistakes along the way. Here are someone’s 5 dumb mistakes by Bill Gates. I <3 bob – but i count vista and winME too;)micro
If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics…
…and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.
Let me dispel a myth here. Women (the overwhelming majority) who get an abortion do not do so lightly. Nor do they regard abortion as contraception.
Sometimes, it is just not viable to continue the pregnancy to the stage where there is a viable human being.
And sometimes, those seeking abortions are the loudest pro-lifers.
Because life is often complex and difficult and involves choices that grieve us, that we wish could be made differently.
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links for 2008-06-25
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Google’s (GOOG) Android mobile operating system will take a bit longer to roll out than many expected: Instead of several phones coming out in time for this year’s holiday shopping season, it looks like there will just be one, from T-Mobile.
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The US space agency yesterday placed an order for new spacesuits for the 2015 launch of the new Orion capsule, designed to replace the aging space shuttle and re-establish humans on the Moon as part of the Constellation Program.
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Wow. Humbling perspective. Pity we won’t learn from it.
May you love as long as you live…
…and live as long as you wish.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
I have never had to conn a ship. I believe I could set a bone or butcher a hog, but I wouldn’t enjoy it. Not the point though. The rest I have participated in to some degree, or done thoroughly. So, is this point of view valid? I happen to think so.
Oh, while we are on Heinlein :
“The loss of manners is the first sign of the decay of a society. People lose their manners and then they start voting for cake and circuses (modern welfare and other social programs that put a band aid on a problem instead of fixing it). One of the early sign of the loss of manners is how clean public rest rooms are.”
Discuss.
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links for 2008-06-23
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We Linux folk are the reliable early adopters of innovative applications like Skype who have done a disproportionate amount of work to make it popular. The gift horse we’ve gotten in return is a usable but much less feature-rich version.
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Most of the world’s most destructive tornado events occur in the United States, but tornadoes do cause violent destructive damage in other countries around the world.
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Look, it is just one of the amazing photos you will see ever. Well, technically, two, but wow.
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In all seriousness of being a linux user we sometimes forget the fun side of it all, here is an attempt to capture some of it.
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my only hope of bike riding again…..
