Archives for December 4, 2008
19,958 and counting…
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 So close …. remember, if you use a real email address when leaving a comment, I’ll be able to attribute that comment to you if it happens to be 20K plus or minus 1. If you want the hat. Or the thong. Or whatever.
Graphical Mounting
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 and unmounting. In Linux. Here’s the problem. With upgrades to Linux Kernel 2.6 for autoplugging devices, and hotswapping of USB devices, etc., mounting has become more complex. At the same time, the spread of Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions among the wider unwashed masses has lead to the stupification (or perhaps I should say…
Augrabies Falls National Park
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 At the top of the gorge, a small stream just before it plunges about 60 meters into the gorge.
Norm Coleman: Weasel
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 Go visit the Norm Coleman Weasel Meter.
The truth is out there
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 Laelaps and Drugmonkey have painfully truthy graphs for you to see.
Human Cell Chasing Bacteria
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 hat tip IBY
Windows market share dives below 90 Percent for first time
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in the past two years, erasing gains made in two of the past three months and sending the operating system’s share under 90% for the first time, an Internet measurement company reported today. source In the mean time, Linux grew from 0.71 to 0.83%, and…
… made during work time …
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 Hat Tip Miss Cellania (who has some other cool stuff … check it out)
Bloog-o-spheroids and blorg roiling
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 Writers write, words wiggle … Iconic writer GQ magazine has named Philip Roth its literary “icon of the year.” The sprawling interview is more musing by the interviewer on the border of self-indulgence than insight from the subject, but the writer salvages the interview by pointing out that Roth has mostly complete disregard for self…
Tarangire Lions
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 Lions are more diverse than many may think. Indeed, recent research shows that lions may be comfortably divided into races. An expert on lions can tell you what part of Africa a particular lion is likely from by how it looks. Have a look at these lions: Anyone who knows anything about lions knows that…
H.M. has died
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 “Henry G. Molaison, 82, of Windsor Locks, CT died on Tuesday. He is known in the medical and scientific literatures as “the amnesic patient, H.M.” He was born in Manchester, CT and graduated from East Hartford High School. In 1953, he underwent an experimental brain operation at the Hartford Hospital to relieve his seizure disorder.…
Gadgets for the ladies. Some are pink, most not.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 I want the peek. Watch CBS Videos Online Hat tip: Bora, a real technology ladies man.
What is a kopje?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 4, 2008 A kopje is a manadnock. Which, in turn, is an inselberg. Indeed, it may sometimes be called a Kakba, but that is the most obscure of all the terms for a very large lump sticking out of the earth all by itself. Like this: In South Africa, this is called a “kopje” (pronounced “Cop eee”…
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