Waving frog waves for the last time
Sad: The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7219803.stm What’s is amazing is that they took...
View ArticleDell BIOS updates using Linux
Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx … be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then...
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Is always bad. And this is a very sad, graphic picture: http://www.photojournalism.org
View ArticleHow’s Eddie?
Eddie’s fecking dead because he was illegal alien and was scared to go to hospital: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/a_toast_to_an_irishman/ This just feckin’ sucks: Eddie died in...
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Pollution in the World’s Oceans
Amazing article about the extent of pollution in the world’s oceans: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,6670018,full.story The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy...
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Links
Different things that caught by eye today. The worst foods to eat in America (via Boing-boing): http://www.menshealth.com/20worst The worst being fries with cheese and ranch dressing from a nation...
View ArticleAdobe Air for Linux?
A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this...
View ArticleDrugs in Wexford
Interesting editoral on RTE about heroin use in Wexford (Ireland) and the lack of attention it’s getting from the Government. Seems to me (many) politicians wait until things reach crisis point before...
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Winter Wonderland #24!
Wow, over 32,000 views on Flickr.com, and #24 in the Boston Globe’s 2008 Winter Wonderland contest:
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Header Image
Trying to replace the header image in the theme I’m currently using. The image is the word unsleepable in the screenshot below: The theme is called Unsleepable and is by Ben Gray, which is a modified...
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Fake IRS E-mail: AKA Spam
Don’t fall for it! If you get an e-mail like this don’t click on the link, because it’s NOT from the IRS. It’s someone is trying to fool you into giving them your bank account number and social...
View ArticleGolden Frogs
Two great videos on YouTube about the Golden Frogs and 2 scientists attempts to save frogs affected by the chytrid fungus, a fungus that is affecting and killing and driving many of the worlds frogs to...
View ArticleBoston Linux Installfest XXVII
Boston Linux Installfest XXVIII When: Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061, 2 Amherst St, Cambridge What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power...
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My Flickr Explore (Feb 2007)
1. Fred and his cap!, 2. Sunrise @ the lake, 3. Boston Twilight, 4. Donegal Town: The Diamond 1973, 5. Celtic Sprially Wrought-iron, 6. Frozen Bog Puddle, 7. Boston Sunset, 8. Maghery, 9. Under Lough...
View ArticleEclipse 3.3.2 and Debian
So I wanted to install Eclipse at home, the version that comes with Debian is 3.2.2-5 and I wanted to try 3.3.x and install WTP and some other plugins that aren’t packaged with Debian (anyone know...
View ArticleHealth Care?
RAM, (Remote Area Medical) a US charity group originally started to provide health care to remote regions in the Amazon is now doing 6o% of it’s work in the US:...
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Tres cool computer case
http://funlok.com/index.php/crazy-pics/kooooooool-pc-cases.html As Ilya said, who sent me the link: Don’t take the first case to Boston’s Logan’s airport! Of course they don’t tell you where you can...
View ArticleOLPC for Birmingham, Alabama?
I just submitted this to Slashdot, as I think it’s interesting what the end result will be? Will the OLPC get squeezed out? Will US kids like ’em (I think they will). bettlebrox writes “Birmingham,...
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